T. Millet Hand

Thomas Millet Hand
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 2nd district
In office January 3, 1945 – December 26, 1956
Preceded by	Elmer H. Wene
Succeeded by	Milton W. Glenn
Personal details
Born	July 7, 1902 Cape May, New Jersey
Died	December 26, 1956 (aged 54) Cold Spring, New Jersey
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician

Thomas Millet Hand (July 7, 1902, Cape May, New Jersey – December 26, 1956, Cold Spring, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1956.

Biography

Hand was born in Cape May, New Jersey on July 7, 1902, and attended the local public schools. He graduated in 1922 from the Dickinson School of Law, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey. He was clerk of the Cape May County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1924–1928, and the prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County from 1928-1933. Hand served as the Mayor of Cape May, New Jersey from 1937 to 1944, and was the publisher of the Cape May Star and Wave from 1940 until his death. He was also a partner in the Mecray-Hand Co., a real estate and insurance business.^[1]

Hand was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and had been reelected on November 6, 1956, to the Eighty-fifth Congress. He served in the House from January 3, 1945, until his death of a heart attack at his home in the Cold Spring section of Lower Township, New Jersey on December 26, 1956.^[1][2]

His remains were cremated at Ewing Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey and interred in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in Cape May.^[1]

Notes

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

References

1. Thomas Millet Hand, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 16, 2007.
2. Staff. "T. MILLET HAND, 54, LEGISLATOR, DEAD; U.S. Representative From Second Jersey District-- Once Cape May Mayor", The New York Times, December 27, 1956. Accessed July 21, 2015. "Thomas Millet Hand Representative in Congress from the Second New Jersey District, died this evening at his home in nearby Cold Spring apparently of a heart attack."

External links

• United States Congress. "T. Millet Hand (id: H000154)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Thomas Millet Hand at The Political Graveyard
• Thomas Millet Hand at Find A Grave