Thomas Maxwell was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

New York

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Born at Tioga Point (now Athens), Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Bradford County, Pennsylvania

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, Maxwell moved to Elmira (then Newtown Point), New York, in 1796.
He was appointed quartermaster of a regiment of Cavalry attached to the brigade of Gen. Vincent Matthews during the War of 1812.
He served as clerk of Tioga County, New York

Tioga County, New York

As of the census of 2010, there were 51,125 people residing in the county, with 22,203 housing units, of these 20,350 occupied, 1,853 vacant. The population density was 98 people per square mile...

 from 1819 to 1829.

Maxwell was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first

21st United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Twenty-first Congress).
He engaged in the prosecution of pension claims.
He studied law and was admitted to practice in the court of common pleas of old Tioga County, New York, in 1832.
He was editor of the Elmira Gazette 1834-1836.
Postmaster of Elmira 1834-1839.
Deputy clerk of Chemung County in 1836.
Treasurer of Chemung County 1836-1843.
He was a vice president of the New York &.
Erie Railroad Co. in 1841.
He served as commissioner of loans of United States deposit and of State funds in 1843.
He moved to Geneva, New York

Geneva, New York

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, about 1845, upon his appointment as deputy clerk of the State supreme court.
He died in Elmira, New York

Elmira, New York

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, November 4, 1864.
He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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