Thomas Riley Marshall in the United States

Thomas Riley Marshall (1854- 1925), American politician, was born at North Manchester, Ind., March 14 1854. He was educated at Wabash College (A.B. 1873; A.M. 1876) and was admitted to the bar in 1875. From 1876 to 1909 he practised law in Columbia City, Ind., and from 1909 to 1913 was governor of Indiana. He was nominated for vice-president on the ticket with Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic National Convention in 1912 and was elected. He was again nominated with President Wilson in 1916 and elected for the term 1917-21. For almost two years after the outbreak of the World War he urged strict neutrality, but in 1918 publicly expressed regret for this attitude. In 1919 he welcomed the King and Queen of Belgium on their visit to Washington during the illness of President Wilson. He was a strong advocate of the League of Nations, but did not favour woman suffrage.

Harding nominated him to serve on the Lincoln Memorial Commission in 1921, and then to a more lucrative position on the Federal Coal Commission in 1922; Marshall resigned from both commissions in 1923.[109] He spent over a year writing books on the law and his Recollections, a humorous memoir. The latter book was completed in May 1925.

Alternative Biography 1

MARSHALL, Thomas Riley, a Vice President of the United States; born in North Manchester, Wabash County, Ind., March 14, 1854; attended the common schools and graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1873; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Columbia City, Ind.; Governor of Indiana 1909-1913; elected, as a Democrat, Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and inaugurated on March 4, 1913; reelected in 1916 and served until March 3, 1921; resumed the practice of law and literary work in Indianapolis, Ind.; member of the Federal Coal Commission 1922-1923; died in Washington, D.C., June 1, 1925; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.

Alternative Biography 2

MARSHALL, THOMAS RILEY, Vice-President of the United States, was born in 1854 in Indiana, graduating from Wabash College in 1873. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and soon attained considerable success and reputation as an orator. After being several times nominated for office by the Democrats, but defeated in the election, he was elected governor of Indiana in 1908. While governor he favored the so-called progressive measures of popular election of senators, employers’ liability laws, etc. His supposed opposition to the Democratic machine politicians headed by Taggart, won Marshall considerable popularity and also Indiana’s support for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. While not successful in gaining the coveted nomination, he did gain second place on the Democratic ticket and was elected Vice-President in 1912, to which office he was re-elected in 1916.

Alternative Biography 3

MARSHALL, Thomas Riley, American lawyer and politician: b. North Manchester, Ind., 14 March 1854. He was graduated from Wabash College in 1873 receivins the degree of A.B., and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1875, practising his profession at Columbia City. In 1908 he was elected governor of Indiana. His adminstration was progressive, and several laws were sponsored by him, including an employers’ liability law, an anti-gambling law and direct nomination of senators. In 1912 he was chosen by the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore as the candidate of the Democratic party for Vice-President of the United States. He was a consistent supporter of the Wilson administration and in 1916 was again nominated and elected Vice-President. Some of his public utterances in 1913, in which he appeared to advocate radical ideas in regard to the inheritance of property, caused much criticism. Wabash, Pennsylvania and Notre Dame universities conferred on him the degree of LL.D.

Alternative Biography 4

Marshall, Thomas Riley, elected Vice President with Mr. Wilson on the Democratic ticket in 1912, was born at North Manchester, Indiana, March 14, 1854. He graduated at Wabash College in 1873 and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He took an active part in politics and was elected governor of Indiana in 1908. He belongs to the progressive element of his party, but pointed out in an interesting contribution to the Atlantic Monthly, on “The Automatic Citizen,” the danger of attempting reform by too much legislation. He is a grand-nephew of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, and a descendant of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Further reading

• Marshall, Thomas R. (1925). Recollections
• Bennett, David J (2007). He Almost Changed the World: The Life And Times Of Thomas Riley Marshall. Freeman & Costello