Background
FREEMAN, Thomas W. was born in 1824 in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States, United States.
FREEMAN, Thomas W. was born in 1824 in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States, United States.
Public school.
Little is known of his family or his upbringing. He was admitted to the Anderson County bar in 1847. In 1851 he moved to Boliver, Polk County, Missouri, and was a Democrat and a successful lawyer.
In 1860, he was a John C. Breckinridge presidential elector and a secessionist. He also was elected to the Missouri General Assembly in 1860. In the provisional Confederate Congress, he served on the Postal Affairs Committee.
In the first Confederate House, he held duties on the Territorial and Public Lands, Enrolled Bills, and Naval Affairs Committees. He was absent much of the time, but generally was a Davis administration supporter. PeterS. Wilkes defeated him for election to the Second Congress.
He seems to have held no further office in the Confederacy.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
