Thomas Ward Osborn (March 9,1833–December 18,1898) was a Union Army officer,freedmen bureau official,[1] 1868 Florida Constitutional Convention delegate,state senator,and United States senator representing Florida.
Osborn was born in Scotch Plains,New Jersey,the son of John and Amelia Osborn. He and his family moved to North Wilna,New York in 1842 where he worked on the family farm until 1854. In 1854,Osborn took college preparatory courses and,in 1860,he graduated from Madison University (now Colgate University) of Hamilton,New York.
Shortly thereafter,Florida was reinstated to the U.S. Congress. While still only in his mid-30s,Osborn was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican and served from 1868 to 1873. He is credited with being instrumental in passing legislation to complete construction of the Washington Monument[2] (which had been halted since before the Civil War).
In his retirement,Osborn engaged in law and literature in New York City where he died in 1898. Thomas Osborn is interred at Hillside Cemetery in North Adams,Massachusetts.
Thomas Ward Osborn; Herb S. Crumb; Kather Ine Dhalle (1993), No Middle Ground: Thomas Ward Osborn's Letters from the Field (1862-1864), Edmonston Publishing, Inc. 224 pp.ISBN0-9622393-4-8.
Thomas Ward Osborn, The fiery trail: a Union officer's account of Sherman's last campaigns, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. 238 pp.ISBN0-87049-500-3
John A. Haddock (1894), The growth of a century: As illustrated in the history of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793 to 1894, Sherman & Co. 843 pp. ASIN B0008945NG
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