Thomas Bowles Shannon

Shannon was originally a Whig in politics, but later supported the Free Soil wing of the Democratic Party, serving as a member of the California Central Committee in 1860.Running as a supporter of Senator John Conness, Shannon was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865), in which he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior.Due to political turmoil in California over Conness, Shannon was not a candidate for reelection in 1864.He was selected as a California Congressional delegate for the Lincoln funeral, in which capacity he participated in speeches delivered outside the capital building in Columbus, Ohio.Shannon was appointed surveyor at the port of San Francisco on August 11, 1865, and served until March 16, 1870.
Speech delivered in the House of Representations in 1864
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