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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareThomas Coleman du PONT
(1863-1930)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1922; 1925-1928Party: Republican;
Republicandu PONT, Thomas Coleman,
(cousin of Henry Algernon du Pont), a Senator from Delaware; born
in Louisville, Ky., December 11, 1863; attended the public schools,
Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, Chauncy Hall School, Boston Mass.,
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.; engaged
in engineering, later being interested in coal mining, street
railways, steel manufacturing, explosives, hotels, office
buildings, and road building; moved to Central City, Ky., in 1883
and was engaged as a mining engineer; moved to Johnstown, Pa., in
1893 and engaged in steel manufacturing; moved to Wilmington, Del.,
in 1900; retired from business activities in 1915; member of the
Republican National Committee 1908-1930; appointed on July 17,
1921, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Josiah O. Wolcott and served
from July 7, 1921, to November 7, 1922; unsuccessful candidate for
election to this vacancy and also for election to the full term;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1924 and
served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation on December 9,
1928; died in Wilmington, Del., November 11, 1930; was cremated and
committed to a grave in the family burial ground near Christ Church
in Christiana Hundred.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Rae, John B. “Coleman du Pont and his
Road.” Delaware History 16 (Spring-Summer 1975):
171-83.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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