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Sergeant (THOMAS an American jurist born)

THOMAS, an American jurist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 14, 1782; was graduated at Princeton College in 1798, and admitted to the bar in 1802. He was made associate justice of the Philadelphia District Court in 1814; was Secretary of State in 1817- 1819, and associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1834-1846 . He resumed practice in 1847. He was the author of a "Treatise upon the Law of Pennsylvania Relative to the Proceedings of Foreign Attachment" (1811) "Reports ; "Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania" (with William Rawle, Jr., 17 vols., 1814-1829) "Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers exercised in the United States Prior to the Adoption of the Present Federal Constitution" (1838); etc. He died in Philadelphia , Pa., May 8, 1860.