Thomas E. Scroggy

Thomas Edmund Scroggy
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 6th district
In office March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1907
Preceded by	Charles Q. Hildebrant
Succeeded by	Matthew Denver
Personal details
Born	(1843-03-18)March 18, 1843 Harveysburg, Ohio
Died	March 6, 1915(1915-03-06) (aged 71) Tulsa, Oklahoma
Political party	Republican

Thomas Edmund Scroggy (March 18, 1843 – March 6, 1915) was Civil War veteran who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1905 to 1907.

Early life and career

Born in Harveysburg, Ohio, Scroggy attended the public schools. He engaged in manufacturing.

Civil War

Enlisted in July 1861 as a private in Company H, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that capacity and a corporal. Honorably discharged and mustered out at Camp Dennison in March 1865.

Legal career

In June 1865 Scroggy engaged in the retail business in Xenia, Ohio. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1869 and served one term. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar September 8, 1871, and commenced practice in Xenia, Ohio.

He served three terms as clerk and three terms as solicitor of the city of Xenia. Common Pleas Judge in 1898, and again elected for a term of five years beginning February 1904 from which he resigned upon his election to Congress.

Congress

Scroggy was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1907). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of his profession. He moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1912, where he died March 6, 1915. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Xenia, Ohio.

References

• United States Congress. "Thomas E. Scroggy (id: S000195)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on November 3, 2008

External links

• "Thomas E. Scroggy". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 3, 2008.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress