Fred A. Thomas

Thomas was born on May 26, 1865, in Potosi, Wisconsin, and died on June 12, 1958, in Stevensville, Montana.^[1] His grandson, also named Fred, served in the Montana State Senate.

Thomas served as a member of the Montana House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949. He was a Republican.^[2] Thomas publicly opposed Mike Mansfield's candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 1952, accusing Mansfield of communist sympathies.^[3]