Background
Boude, Thomas was born on May 17, 1752 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative politician member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Boude, Thomas was born on May 17, 1752 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
During the American Revolutionary War served as a lieutenant under Gen. Anthony Wayne with the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Pennsylvania Battalions from January 5, 1776, to November 3, 1783, and was promoted to captain and brevet major. He engaged in business as a lumber dealer in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
He was a member and one of the organizers of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802 to the Eighth Congress.
He resumed his former business as a lumber dealer and died in Columbia, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1822. He is buried in that part of Mount Bethel Cemetery known as the “Brick Graveyard.”.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1794 to 1796.