Thomas J. Pickett
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Thomas J. Pickett
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Thomas Johnson Pickett Sr. was an American politician from Kentucky. Trained at a young age as a typesetter, Pickett founded a number of papers throughout Illinois, Kentucky, and Nebraska. He was the president of the Illinois Editorial Association and was a delegate to the Bloomington Convention. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1860, then raised a pair of regiments during the Civil War, reaching the rank of Colonel. He returned to Kentucky after the war and ran unsuccessfully for United
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American politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Pickett
date created:
2014-12-18T21:21:34Z
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2024-08-31T21:43:42Z
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