THOMAS DAWES ELIOT

Eliot, Thomas Dawes (1808-1870), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 20, 1808; attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and was graduated from Columbian College (now George Washington University), in that city, in 1825; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in New Bedford, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives in 1839; served in the State senate in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Zeno Scudder and served from April 17, 1854, to March 3, 1855; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854; delegate to the Free-Soil Convention in Worcester, Mass., in 1855; declined to be a candidate for nomination by the Republican Party for attorney general of Massachusetts in 1857; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on the Freedmen’s Bureau (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Fortieth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868; resumed the practice of law in New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., where he died on June 14, 1870; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Parents: William Greenleaf Eliot, Margaret Greenleaf Dawes
Spouse: Frances Brick
Born: 1 Oct 1815
Marriage: 3 Nov 1834
Children Sex Birth
Caroline Dawes Eliot F 14 Sep 1835 in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Paul Mitchell Eliot M 13 Sep 1837
Eliza Mitchell Eliot F 9 Oct 1839
Frances Eliot M 3 Sep 1844
Mary Rotch Eliot F 9 Oct 1847
Emily Lamb Eliot F 25 Mar 1851
Edith Eliot F 24 Sep 1854

Sources:
Family Collections LDS
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell