Thomas Peter Akers
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Thomas Peter Akers (October 4, 1828-April 3, 1877) was an attorney, college professor, and member of the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Knox County, Ohio, where he graduated from college and studied law.
He became a school teacher in Kentucky, and moved later, in 1853, to Lexington, Missouri. He became a professor of mathematics and moral philosophy at Masonic College in Lexington, as well as the pastor of a local Methodist church there.
On August 18, 1856 he was appointed to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacant seat. He remained in that position through the next election.
He moved to New York City in 1861, and became a vice president of the gold board. He subsequently moved to Utah because of ill health, and eventually returned back to Lexington, Missouri, where he died in 1877.
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- Who's Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago:Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
- Thomas Peter Akers at Find-A-Grave
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