Thomas W. Osborn

Quill platform ID: p11317.

"(March 9, 1833 -- December 18, 1898) Thomas Ward Osborn was a(n) lawyer, soldier, assistant commissioner, register in bankruptcy, public servant, and American politician. Osborn was born in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey and moved to Tallahassee Florida. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He served in the Union Army in 1861 as a lieutenant, captain, major, and colonel of Battery D First Regiment of the New York Light Artillery. He was appointed assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen for Florida (1865-1866), register in bankruptcy (1867), and United States commissioner at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1876). Thomas also was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1868 and served on the State senate. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (June 25, 1868 -- March 3, 1873) and was not reelected. [Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=O000109]"

Member of Florida Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment, Florida Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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