Thomas Jefferson Speer (August 31, 1837 – August 18, 1872) was a
U.S. Representative from
Georgia.
Born in
Monroe County, Georgia
Monroe County is a County (United States), county located in the Central Georgia, central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 27,957. The county seat is ...
, Speer attended the common schools.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits and as a planter.
Speer was elected
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
in 1861 and reelected in 1865.
He was appointed collector of
Confederate taxes for Pike County in June 1863, serving until the end of the
American Civil War.
Speer was elected justice of the inferior court for Pike County in 1865, serving until July 1868.
He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867–1868. He served as member of the
Georgia State Senate from 1868 to 1870.
Speer was elected as a
Republican to the
Forty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1871, until his death in
Barnesville, Georgia, August 18, 1872.
He was interred in Zebulon Street Cemetery.
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1837 births
1872 deaths
American planters
Republican Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
Georgia (U.S. state) state court judges
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Barnesville, Georgia
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges