lieutenant death_date birth_date term_end death_place profession order term_start spouse image name predecessor birth_place party office governor successor religion article_title
elias s. stover melville j. salter february 4 , 1898 -lrb- aged 61 -rrb- october 26 , 1836 january 8 , 1877 1865 meadville , pennsylvania printer , attorney , u.s. marshal , diplomat 6th 2nd january 13 , 1873 1863 julia delehay thosaosborn.gif thomas a. osborn james m. harvey joseph pomeroy root crawford county , pennsylvania republican governor of kansas lieutenant governor of kansas thomas carney george t. anthony james mcgrew methodist -lrb- preference -rrb- thomas a. osborn

thomas a. osborn

thomas andrew osborn -lrb- october 26 , 1836 -- february 4 , 1898 -rrb- was the sixth governor of kansas .
osborn was born in meadville , pennsylvania .
as a young man , he was apprenticed as a printer , from which he supported himself through allegheny college .
in 1856 he began to study law under a meadville judge and was admitted to the michigan bar in 1857 .
he married julia delahey and they had one child .
in november of 1857 , osborn moved to lawrence , kansas where he became a compositor for the `` herald of freedom '' .
the following year , osborn was practicing law in elwood , kansas and was known to be a republican and free-state supporter .
he was elected to the state senate in december , 1859 .
he became president of the senate in 1861 and presided over impeachment proceedings of the governor .
osborn was appointed u. s. marshall and held that post from 1865 to 1867 .
elected in 1872 , and reelected in 1874 , he was governor of kansas from 1873 to 1877 .
osborn was minister to chile from 1877 to 1881 and minister to brazil from 1881 to 1885 , osborn 's wife died in 1892 .
in 1898 he was engaged to marguerite fowler richmond of meadville , pennsylvania .
while awaiting their wedding , osborn died and his body was returned to kansas .
he is buried in topeka cemetery , topeka , shawnee county , kansas .
