Background
Bayne, Thomas Mckee was born on June 14, 1836 in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Bayne, Thomas Mckee was born on June 14, 1836 in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the public schools and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He studied law.
During the American Civil War, he entered the Union Army in July 1862 as colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He resumed the study of law in 1865, and was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in April 1866.
He was elected as district attorney for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in October 1870 and held the office until January 1, 1874.
Bayne was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses.
He was renominated as a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress, but declined to accept the nomination, retiring from public life and active business pursuits. As a result of concerns about a lung hemorrhage, he shot himself dead, two days after his 58th birthday, in Washington, District of Columbia in 1894.
He was interred in Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Member United States House