Thomas Chaires
Thomas Peter Chaires (March 12, 1847 - August 17, 1899) was a state legislator in Florida in both the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Chaires was born March 12, 1847 in Leon County, Florida to Green D. Chaires and Anna Maria Parkhill.[1] He received most of his education in a seminary in Tallahassee and enlisted in Robert H. Gamble's Artillery before transferring to Scott's Cavalry.[1][2] A few years after the war in 1868 he moved to Cedar Key, Florida and started farming and raising cattle, then moved to Old Town in 1870 to avoid an epidemic.[3][1]
He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1885 representing Lafayette County,[4] and then the Florida Senate in 1887 and again in 1899.[1]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Chaires died August 17, 1899[1] from issues with his liver and was survived by his wife and three sons.[5] One of his sons, McQueen Chaires, also became a state legislator in Florida.[3][6]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Thomas Chaires at Find a GraveLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
