
Thomas Foster Tipton (29 August 1833-7 February 1904) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 13) from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1879, interrupting Adlai Stevenson I's terms.
Biography[]
Thomas Foster Tipton was born in Harrisburg, Ohio in 1833, and he was raised in McLean County, Illinois, where he became a lawyer in 1854. He served as a state attorney from 1867 to 1868, as a circuit court judge in 1870 and from 1891 to 1897, and in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879. He died in Bloomington in 1904.