To Be Run By Carter

Article taken from the Edwardsville Intelligence July 27, 1892.

The Hon Thomas Henry Carter, now chairman of the Republican national committee, vice W.J. Campbell, is of Irish ancestry, and was born Oct. 30, 1854, in Junior Branch, Scioto county, O. The next year his parents removed to a farm near Pan, Ills., and there the boy was reared. His summers were passed in the ordinary work of a farmer boy, doing chores, tending stock, hoeing corn and cultivating muscle.

On reaching his majority he located in Burlington, Ia., where he earned a living by toil of various kinds and studied law in the intervals. In 1882 he went to Helena, Mon., which is still his home, and where he is known as a practicing lawyer, but he soon got into active politics; was first the territorial delegate and when the territory became a state, late in 1889, he was elected its first congressman. He was defeated, however, in the attempt to succeed himself, and then received from President Harrison the office of commissioner of the general land office.

In the Fifty-first congress he was chairman of the committee on mines and mining, and as such was active in having a protective duty put on the silver-lead ores of Mexico. He is a stout advocate of the free coinage of silver, and served as secretary of the Republican congressional committee. He married in Helena, his wife being a sister of Thomas Cruse, a wealthy mine owner.