Rusk, Thomas Jefferson

Life Span
to
Full name
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Place of Birth
Pendleton, SC
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Origins
Slave State
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Government
State supreme court
Other state government
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Date Event
Thomas Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches
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