Thomas F. Tipton

Thomas Foster Tipton was a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. Representative] from Illinois.

Biography

Thomas F. Tipton was born near Harrisburg, Ohio on August 29, 1833. He attended the public schools.
He moved with his parents to McLean County, Illinois, in 1843.
He read law, was Admission to [the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar] in 1854, and began working as a lawyer.
He served as state attorney for the eighth judicial district of Illinois in 1867 and 1868.
Tipton was elected circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit in 1870, and upon the reorganization of the circuit court under the new constitution was reelected circuit judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit.
Tipton was elected as a Republican to the 45th [United States Congress|Forty-fifth] Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.
Tipton was again elected circuit judge and served from 1891 to 1897.
He resumed the practice of law.
He died in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, February 7, 1904, and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.