Thomas Hale Sill (October 11, 1783 – February 7, 1856) was a Jacksonian and

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member of the

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from

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. Thomas Hale Sill was born in

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. He graduated from

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, in 1804, after beginning his college studies at Williams College in 1799. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in

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. He moved to

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, in 1813 and resumed the practice of law. He was a member of the staff of General Wallace and also a member of the Minutemen of the state militia. He was a deputy United States marshal from 1816 to 1818. He served as burgess of Erie from 1816 to 1817 and deputy attorney general in 1819. Sill was a member of the

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in 1823. He was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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. He again served as burgess of Erie in 1829. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in

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. He repeated his service as burgess of Erie in 1833. He served as President of the Erie branch of the

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in 1837. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania constitutional convention in 1837 and 1838. He served one final time as burgess of Erie from 1843 to 1844. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848. He served as postmaster of Erie from 1847 to 1853, and as a director of the Erie Academy for more than thirty years. He engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in Erie in 1856. He is buried in

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