Jesse B. Thomas

Jesse Burgess Thomas
United States Senator
from Illinois
In office
December 3, 1818 – March 3, 1829
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byJohn McLean
Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Indiana Territory's
at-large district
In office
October 22, 1808 – March 3, 1809
Preceded byBenjamin Parke
Succeeded byJonathan Jennings
Personal details
Born
Jesse Burgess Thomas

1777
Shepherdstown, Virginia, British America (now West Virginia)
DiedMay 2, 1853 (aged 75–76)
Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican (Before 1824)
National Republican (1824–1834)

Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777 – May 2, 1853) was an American lawyer, judge and politician who served as a delegate from the Indiana Territory to the tenth Congress and later served as president of the Constitutional Convention which led to Illinois being admitted to the Union. He became one of Illinois' first two Senators, and is best known as the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1829 he lived the rest of his life in Ohio.[1][2]

  1. ^ Appleton's Cyclopedia, vol. VI, p. 84
  2. ^ "THOMAS, Jesse Burgess | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives".