Background
Thomas Menees was born on June 26, 1823 in Mansker’s Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. He was the son of Benjamin Williams and Elizabeth Harrison Menees.
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Thomas Menees was trained as a physician and received his Doctor of Medicine from Transylvania University in 1846.
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Thomas Menees was born on June 26, 1823 in Mansker’s Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. He was the son of Benjamin Williams and Elizabeth Harrison Menees.
Thomas Menees was trained as a physician and received his Doctor of Medicine from Transylvania University in 1846.
Thomas Menees practiced medicine in Springfield, Tennessee, from 1846 to 1855, and he then went into business.
In 1857, he served in the State Senate, but he lost a bid for the United States House of Representatives two years later because of the power of the Whigs in his area. After returning to private life, he made railroad investments.
He was elected to the first Confederate House from Tennessee's Eighth Congressional District soon after the war began and was reelected in 1864. An administration supporter, he served on the Medical Departments, Territories and Public Lands, and Printing Committees. After the war, he practiced medicine in Nashville.
In 1873, Thomas Menees was a professor of medicine at the University of Nashville, he was made dean of combined medical departments of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, a post which he held from 1874 to 1895.
Thomas was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church.
Thomas Meneese was a secessionist and supported John C. Breckinridge for president in 1860.
Menees had four children by his marriage to Elizabeth Hooper on April 21, 1853. She died and he married Mrs. Mary Jane Walker, on August 14, 1863, by whom he had a daughter.