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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaThomas Ward OSBORN
(1833-1898)
Senate Years of Service:
1868-1873Party: RepublicanOSBORN, Thomas Ward, a
Senator from Florida; born in Scotch Plains, Union County, N.J.,
March 9, 1833; moved to New York in 1842 with his parents, who
settled in North Wilna; attended the common schools and graduated
from Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, N.Y., in 1860;
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861; during the Civil
War entered the Union Army in 1861 as lieutenant and became
captain, major, and colonel of Battery D, First Regiment, New York
Light Artillery; appointed assistant commissioner of the Bureau of
Refugees and Freedmen for Florida 1865-1866; settled in
Tallahassee, Fla., and commenced the practice of law; appointed
register in bankruptcy in 1867; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1868; moved to Pensacola, Fla.; member, State senate;
upon the readmission of Florida to representation was elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate and served from June 25,
1868, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for reelection; served
as United States commissioner at the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876; moved to New York City and resumed the
practice of law; also engaged in literary pursuits; died in New
York City, December 18, 1898; interment in Hillside Cemetery, North
Adams, Berkshire County, Mass.
Bibliography
Osborn, Thomas Ward. No Middle Ground: Thomas Ward
Osborne’s Letters from the Field (1862-1864). Edited by
Herb S. Crumb and Katherine Dhalle. Hamilton, NY: Edmonston
Publishing, 1993; Osborn, Thomas Ward. The Fiery Trail: A Union
Officer’s Account of Sherman’s Last Campaigns.
Edited by Richard Harwell and Philip N. Racine. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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