Background
Thayer, Amos Madden was born on October 10, 1841 in Mina, New York, United States. Son of Ichabod and Fidelia (Louisiana Due) Thayer.
Thayer, Amos Madden was born on October 10, 1841 in Mina, New York, United States. Son of Ichabod and Fidelia (Louisiana Due) Thayer.
Graduate Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1862 (Doctor of Laws, 1892). Served in Civil war 3 years as First lieutenant United States Signal Corps. Settled in Saint Louis, February 1866.
Admitted to bar, 1868.
Circuit judge, Saint Louis, 1876-1886. United States district judge, Eastern district Missouri, from February 24, 1887-1894.
United States circuit judge, 8th circuit, August 9, 1894-1905.
He read law in 1868 and went into private practice in the Montana Territory, then in Saint Louis, Missouri. He became a judge to the Circuit Court of Missouri in 1876, and remained on that court for over a decade. On February 21, 1887, President Grover Cleveland nominated Thayer to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, to a seat vacated by Samuel Treat.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 26, 1887, and received his commission the same day.
He also took a position as a professor at Washington University in 1890. Then on August 6, 1894, President Cleveland nominated Thayer to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, to a new seat created by 28 Statistics
115. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 9, and received his commission the same day.
Thayer remained on that court until his death in 1905 in Saint Louis.
Married Sidney Hunton Brother, December 22, 1880.