Thomas Sterling, American senator. member South Dakot Constitutional Convention, 1883, 1889; member Senate 1st State Legislature, South Dakot, 1890 (chairman judiciary committee); member of faculty National University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia.
Background
Ethnicity:
was an American politician. A Republican, he served in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1925.
Sterling, Thomas was born on February 21, 1851 in near Amanda, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Anna (Kesler) Sterling.
Education
he attended the public schools and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington in 1875. He was superintendent of schools of Bement, Illinois from 1875 to 1877.
Career
In 1889 he became a member of the State constitutional convention, and a year later in 1890 a member of the State senate. From 1901 to 1911 he was the dean of the college of law of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. He was elected in 1913 as a Republican to the United States Senate, was reelected in 1918, and served from March 4, 1913, to March 4, 1925. During this time, he served on the Overman Committee investigating seditious German and Bolshevik activities. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924. During the Sixty-sixth Congress he was the chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. In the Sixty-seventh Congress he served on the Committee on Civil Service, and on the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads during the Sixty-eighth Congress. He practiced law in Washington, D.C., and served on the faculty of National University Law School. He was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1925 as field secretary of the Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington. Sterling died in Washington, D.C. and was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery
Politics
was an American politician. A Republican, he served in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1925.
Membership
Member South Dakot Constitutional Convention, 1883, 1889. Member Senate 1st State Legislature, South Dakot, 1890 (chairman judiciary committee). Member of faculty National University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia.
Interests
Music & Bands
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Connections
Married Anna Dunn, October 17, 1877 (died 1881).; married second, Mistress.; married 3d, Mayme E. McCaslin, March 11, 1925.