About Thomas Chaires
Lived 1847 – 1899 (aged 52). Thomas Chaires was an American politician.
Thomas Peter Chaires (March 12, 1847 – August 17, 1899) was a state legislator in Florida in both the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate.
Biography
Chaires was born March 12, 1847 in Leon County, Florida to Green D. Chaires and Anna Maria Parkhill. A few years after the war in 1868 he moved to Cedar Key, Florida and started farming and raising cattle, then moved to Old Town in 1870 to avoid an epidemic. and then the Florida Senate in 1887 and again in 1899. from issues with his liver. He was survived by his wife and three sons. One of his sons, McQueen Chaires, also became a state legislator in Florida.
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American politician
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Thomas Chaires was born on 12 March 1847.
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Thomas Chaires died on 17 August 1899.
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