John R. Thayer

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John Randolph Thayer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1905
Preceded by Joseph H. Walker
Succeeded by Rockwood Hoar
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1890-1891
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1880-1881
Personal details
Born March 9, 1845
Douglas, Massachusetts
Died December 19, 1916 (aged 71)
Worcester, Massachusetts
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Charlotte D. Holmes, m. January 30, 1872[1]
Alma mater Yale College
Profession Lawyer

John Randolph Thayer (9 March 1845 – 19 December 1916) was a representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Douglas, Massachusetts and attended the common schools and Nichols Academy in Dudley. Thayer graduated from Yale College in 1869 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Worcester, Massachusetts. There, he served on the city council from 1874 to 1876 and was elected an alderman from 1878 to 1880.

After unsuccessfully running for district attorney in 1876, he was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. He then ran for mayor of Worcester in 1886 without winning. He did serve in the State Senate from 1890 to 1891. After losing an election in 1892 to the 53rd United States Congress he was elected as a Democrat to the 56th, 57th, and 58th Congresses, serving from 4 March 1899 until 3 March 1905). Thayer did not seek reelection in 1904 but resumed his law practice in Worcester. He died there on 19 December 1916 and was buried at the Rural Cemetery.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Rice, Franklin Pierce (1899), Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: fifty years a city, Worcester, MA: F. S. Blanchard & Company, Publishers, p. 775.
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Joseph H. Walker		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district
March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1905 		Succeeded by
Rockwood Hoar
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