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| Name | Thomas C. Platt |
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Owego, New York , United States |
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July 15, 1833
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| Died | March 06, 1910
(76 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
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| Info | PLATT, Thomas Collier, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., July 15, 1833; was prepared for college in the Owego Academy and attended Yale College in 1849 and 1850; in 1852 engaged in business as a druggist and continued for twenty years; president of the Tioga National Bank; interested in the lumbering business in Michigan; clerk of Tioga County 1859-1861
US House (R-NY) 1873-1877
US Senate (R-NY) 1881; resigned on May 16, 1881, because of a disagreement with President James Garfield over federal appointments in New York; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate to succeed himself; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh Congress)
Secretary and director of the United States Express Co. in 1879 and elected president of the company in 1880; member and president of the Board of Quarantine Commissioners of New York 1880-1888; member of the Republican National Committee
US Senate (R-NY) 1897-1909; not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on Printing (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Cuban Relations (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress)
Died in New York City, March 6, 1910; interment in Evergeen Cemetery, Owego, N.Y.
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