Background
He was the son of James Surpless (1850–1909), a hardware merchant, and Fannie Curtis (Oliver) Surpless.
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Thomas John Surpless
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Cornell University.
Career
He graduated from Cornell University in 1900. Then he practiced law in Brooklyn. During a summer vacation in 1911, he took part in the rescue of several young women who had fallen into the Delaware River, and thereby contracted malaria.
Afterwards he remained in ill health, and died on December 23, 1911, at his home at 415 Kosciuszko Street in Brooklyn, from typhoid fever.
Membership
Surpless was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909.
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Nationality
United States -
Political Party
Republican party