Thomas Rolph

Thomas Rolph was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from California. His older brother, James Rolph Jr., was elected Mayor of San Francisco in 1911 and served until he was elected Governor of California in 1930.

Biography

Rolph was born in San Francisco, California. He attended public schools and graduated from Humboldt Evening High School. In 1912, he founded a building materials sales agency, which he headed until his death.

Congress

Rolph was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Later career and death

He returned to his building material sales agency and died in San Francisco in 1956. He was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California.