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Life Summary
Full name
Martin Russell Thayer
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
4
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
4
Family
Martin Thayer (father), Mary Call Russell Thayer (mother), Elizabeth Wallace(first wife), Sophia Dallas Watmough (second wife)
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Other
Other Education
Amherst College (MA)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Republican
Government
US House of Representatives
State judge