Jesse B. Thomas

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Jesse Burgess Thomas
United States Senator from Illinois
In office December 3, 1818 – March 3, 1829
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	John McLean
Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Indiana Territory's at-large district
In office October 22, 1808 – March 3, 1809
Preceded by	Benjamin Parke
Succeeded by	Jonathan Jennings
Personal details
Born	Jesse Burgess Thomas 1777 Shepherdstown, Virginia, British America (now West Virginia)
Died	May 2, 1853 (aged 75–76) Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Democratic-Republican (Before 1824) National Republican (1824–1834)

Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777 – May 2, 1853) was an American lawyer, judge and politician who served as a delegate from the Indiana Territory to the tenth Congress and later served as president of the Constitutional Convention which led to Illinois being admitted to the Union. He became one of Illinois' first two Senators, and is best known as the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1829 he lived the rest of his life in Ohio.^[1][2]