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THOMAS COLLIER PLATT (1833-191o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:COLLIER See also:PLATT (1833-191o)  , See also:American politician, was See also:born in See also:Owego, Tioga See also:county, New See also:York, on the 15th of See also:July 1833 . He studied in 1849-1852 at Yale, from which he received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1876 .. He made See also:money in See also:lumber- See also:ing out See also:West, and returning to Owego became a banker and railway director, He helped to organize it§ Republican party in Tioga county, and in 1873-1877 was a representative in See also:Congress . In 1877 he was chairman of the See also:state Republican See also:Convention at See also:Rochester . On the 18th of See also:January 1881 he was elected See also:United States senator, but resigned, with his colleague, See also:Roscoe See also:Conkling, on the 16th of May following, chiefly because See also:President See also:Garfield, in spite of their protest, had appointed as See also:collector of the See also:port of New York, See also:Judge See also:William H . See also:Robertson, a See also:political opponent . Within ten years he became the acknowledged Republican " See also:boss" of the state, and he again served in the United States See also:Senate from 1897 to 1909 . But his• See also:power waned steadily after' about 1903 . He died in New York See also:City on the 6th of See also:March 1910 .

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