T. Millet Hand

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Thomas Millet Hand

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1945December 26, 1956
Preceded by Elmer H. Wene
Succeeded by Milton W. Glenn

Born July 7, 1902
Cape May, New Jersey
Died December 26, 1956
Cold Spring, New Jersey
Political party Republican
Profession Politician

Thomas Millet Hand (July 7, 1902, Cape May, New JerseyDecember 26, 1956, Cold Spring, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945-57.

Hand was born in Cape May, New Jersey on July 7, 1902, and attended the local public schools. He graduated in 1922 from the Dickinson School of Law, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey. He was clerk of the Cape May County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1924-1928, and the prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County from 1928-1933. Hand served as the mayor of Cape May from 1937-1944, and was the publisher of the Cape May Star and Wave from 1940 until his death. He was also a partner in the Mecray-Hand Co., a real estate and insurance business.[1]

Hand was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and had been reelected on November 6, 1956, to the Eighty-fifth Congress. He served in the House from January 3, 1945, until his death in Cold Spring, New Jersey on December 26, 1956.[1]

His remains were cremated at Ewing Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey and interred in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in Cape May.[1]

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This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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Preceded by
Elmer H. Wene
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 2nd congressional district

January 3, 1945December 26, 1956
Succeeded by
Milton W. Glenn