Thomas J. Van Alstyne

Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne (July 25, 1827 – October 26, 1903) was a U.S. representative from New York.

Early life Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne was born on July 25, 1827, in Richmondville, New York.

Van Alstyne was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress and served one term, March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885. In Congress, he was a member of the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice.

Personal life Val Alstyne was married three times.

Thomas Butler Van Alstyne (1851–1927), who married Anna Richards. After her death in 1884, he married his third wife, Laura Louisa Wurdemann (1849–1939), a daughter of William Wurdemann and Lydia Vanderbilt and a granddaughter of William Vanderbilt, on February 17, 1886.

William Thomas Van Alstyne (1887–1965). He was interred at Albany Rural Cemetery.