page_title: Thomas C. Power
section_title: Senate service and later life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas C. Power / Senate service and later life
caption_attribution_description: English: 1891 image of Power Building, now known as the Power Block, in Helena, Montana, U.S. Image credited to A. W. Lyman
context_page_description: Thomas Charles Power was Republican senator from Montana and American businessman.
context_section_description: In 1889, Power ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Montana, winning the nomination of the Republican Party on the first ballot, but losing the general election to Democratic candidate Joseph Toole, the only Democrat on the state ticket that year to be elected. A conflict erupted over the respective roles of the governor and the state legislature in appointing the first two members of the United States Senate for the state, but on January 2, 1890, the Republican-controlled legislature elected Power to the second seat, which he then held until March 3, 1895.
  Power died at his home in Helena on February 16, 1923, and was interred in Resurrection Cemetery. The town of Power in Montana is named after him.
caption: An 1891 image of the 1889 Power Building in Helena, now popularly referred to as "The Power Block".[4]
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