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Thomas Meagher was born on August 3, 1823, Waterford, Ireland.
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Thomas Meagher was born on August 3, 1823, Waterford, Ireland.
Meagher was educated at Roman Catholic boarding schools. When Meagher was eleven, his family sent him to the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare. It was at Clongowes that he developed his skill of oratory, becoming at age 15 the youngest medalist of the Debating Society.
After six years, Meagher left Ireland for the first time, to study in Lancashire, England, at Stonyhurst College, also a Jesuit institution.
Meagher became a member of the Young Ireland Party in 1845 and in 1847 was one of the founders of the Irish Confederation, dedicated to Irish independence. In 1848 he was involved, with William Smith O’Brien, in an abortive attempt to mount an insurrection against English rule. Arrested for high treason, he was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania).
He escaped in 1852 and made his way to the United States. After a speaking tour of U. S. cities, he settled in New York City, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He soon became a leader of the Irish in New York and, from 1856, edited the Irish News.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Meagher became a captain of New York volunteers and fought at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 1861). He then organized the Irish Brigade, and in February 1862 was elevated to the rank of brigadier general. After his brigade was decimated at the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1863), Meagher resigned his commission, but in December he returned to command the military district of Etowah, with headquarters at Chattanooga, Tenn.
At the close of the war, he was appointed secretary of Montana Territory, where in the absence of a territorial governor he served as acting governor until his accidental death by drowning in the Missouri River on July 1, 1867.
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Thomas Francis Meagher was a member of the Democratic Party (United States).
Quotations:
"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. "
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army. "
"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. "
On February 22, 1851, Thomas Francis Meagher married Catherine Bennett, daughter of Bryan Bennett, a farmer who, in 1817, had been convicted of mail robbery. They had a son, but he died at 4 months of age. Then Catherine gave birth to Meagher's only child: Thomas Francis Meagher, named after his father. She died on May 12, 1854, at the home of Meagher's father.
In 1856, he married Elizabeth "Libby" Townsend.