Edward A. Thomas (April 27, 1838 – September 2, 1890) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Territorial
Wyoming Supreme Court from March 20, 1873, to December 14, 1877.
Born in
Cayuga County, New York
Cayuga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,248. Its county seat and largest city is Auburn. The county was named for the Cayuga people, one of the Indian tribes in the Iroquois Conf ...
,
[Wyoming State Archives biography of E.A. Thomas, available at 2301 Central Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001.] Thomas was captain in the
Union Army in the
American Civil War,
[Rebecca W. Thomson, ''Annals of Wyoming'' (1981), p. 88.] and was a lawyer, and later mayor in
Auburn, New York.
On March 20, 1873, President
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...
appointed Thomas, then 35 years old, to the Territorial Wyoming Supreme Court,
to replace
John W. Kingman.
During his four years of service there, Thomas "was the compiler for the first volume of the Wyoming Supreme Court decisions".
He resigned from the court on December 14, 1877, and "returned East, where he devoted some of his time to writing",
which included the authorship of several novels and a dictionary of biography.
Thomas died in
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Norristown is a municipality with home rule status and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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.
References
1838 births
1890 deaths
People from Cayuga County, New York
Union Army officers
Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court
19th-century American judges
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