Thomas H. Malone

Thomas H. Malone (1834-1906) was an American Confederate veteran, judge, businessman and academic administrator. He served as the President of the Nashville Gas Company from 1893 to 1906. He served as the second Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1875 to 1904.

Early life Thomas H. Malone was born in 1834 in Limestone County, Alabama. His father, James C. Malone, was a large planter. He clerked with Houston & Brown, a law firm in Nashville, and he was admitted to the state bar in 1859. He subsequently served in the Confederate States Army, first under General Dabney H. Maury and then under General Joseph Wheeler. One of his students was Jacob M. Dickinson. Malone bequeathed his Honeywood Farm to his widow while his sons received stocks from the Nashville Gas Company. Moreover, one of his sons, Thomas H. Malone Jr., was elected to the Board of Directors of the Nashville Gas Company; he was also Assistant Professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School.