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Jesse B. Thomas Jr.

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478: 31: 527: 522: 242: 557: 542: 512: 552: 437: 104: 547: 517: 122:, one of Illinois' first senators. Jesse Thomas Jr. was married to Adeline Smith, one of the daughters of Illinois Supreme Court Justice 532: 507: 382: 88: 73: 235: 202: 267: 228: 537: 251: 46: 42: 108: 77: 57: 357: 111:
appointed Thomas as Douglas's successor. After retiring from the Supreme Court in 1848, he moved first to
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Bateman, Newton; Paul Selby; Franices M. Shonkwiler; Henry L Fowkes (1908).
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before being appointed Attorney General, a post he held for a single year.
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Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
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From 1837 through 1839, he was a circuit court judge based in
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Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Illinois
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Jesse B. Thomas, Jr.

Illinois Attorney General
Supreme Court of Illinois
Lebanon, Ohio
Transylvania University
Lexington, Kentucky
Edwardsville, Illinois
Illinois State Senate
Illinois House of Representatives
Madison County
Springfield
New Salem
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Illinois Supreme Court
Congress
Thomas Ford
Galena
Jesse B. Thomas
Theophilus W. Smith


Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
521
Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Illinois
261
Ninian Wirt Edwards
Attorney General of Illinois
Walter B. Scates

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