Biography
Thomas Settle was born near Wentworth,Rockingham County,N.C.,on March 10,1865. He attended the public schools and Georgetown University,studied law in Greensboro;was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Wentworth.
Career
Settle served as solicitor of the ninth judicial district (1886–1894) before he was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1893 –March 3,1897).
Settle was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Fifty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896.
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