Thomas Birch Florence (January 26, 1812 – July 3, 1875) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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Biography

Thomas B. Florence born in

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. He learned the

hatter Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter. Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of g ...

's trade and engaged in that business in 1833. He was engaged in the newspaper business. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in

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and

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. Florence was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses. After leaving Congress edited and published the '' Constitutional Union'' in Washington, D.C., and subsequently became the proprietor of the '' Sunday Gazette''. He was an unsuccessful candidate in his old district for election in

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and in 1874. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1875. He was originally buried in

Monument Cemetery Monument Cemetery was a rural cemetery located at the current day intersection of Broad and Berks Street in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1956. It was the second rural cemetery in Philadelphia after Laurel Hill Cemetery. It was ...

in Philadelphia which was closed in 1956 and his remains moved to

Lawnview Memorial Park Lawnview Memorial Park, also referred to as Lawnview Cemetery, is a cemetery located at 500 Huntingdon Pike in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. It is 82 acres in size and is managed by the Odd Fellows Cemetery Company of Philadelphia. It contains the reb ...

in Rockledge, Pennsylvania.

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