Edward A. Thomas (April 27, 1838 – September 2, 1890) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Territorial Wyoming Supreme Court from March 20, 1873, to December 14, 1877.
Born in Cayuga County, New York,[1] Thomas was captain in the Union Army in the American Civil War,[1][2] and was a lawyer, and later mayor in Auburn, New York.[1]
On March 20, 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Thomas, then 35 years old, to the Territorial Wyoming Supreme Court,[1] to replace John W. Kingman.[2] During his four years of service there, Thomas "was the compiler for the first volume of the Wyoming Supreme Court decisions".[2]
He resigned from the court on December 14, 1877, and "returned East, where he devoted some of his time to writing",[1] which included the authorship of several novels and a dictionary of biography.[2] Thomas died in Norristown, Pennsylvania.[1]
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