Thomas Marsh Forman (January 4, 1809 – September 27, 1875) was a prominent

Confederate Confederacy or confederate may refer to: States or communities * Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities * Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1 ...

politician. He was born Thomas Forman Bryan in

Chatham County, Georgia Chatham County ( ) is located in the U.S. state of Georgia, on the state's Atlantic coast. The county seat and largest city is Savannah. One of the original counties of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after Will ...

to US Representative

Joseph Bryan Joseph Bryan (August 18, 1773 – September 12, 1812) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1803 to 1806. Early life Bryan was born Sav ...

and Delia Forman Bryan. In 1846 he changed his name in order to inherit the estate of his maternal grandfather of the same name. Forman served in the Georgia state senate in 1847. Forman represented the state in the

Provisional Confederate Congress The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, also known as the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, was a congress of deputies and delegates called together from the Southern States which became the governing body ...

from August 1861 to February 1862, replacing Francis Stebbins Bartow who had been killed at the

First Battle of Manassas The First Battle of Bull Run (the name used by Union forces), also known as the Battle of First Manassas

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External links

Thomas Marsh Forman at The Political Graveyard
1809 births 1875 deaths Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States {{DEFAULTSORT:Forman, Thomas Marsh