Thomas Shanks (politician)

Thomas Shanks
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the Botetourt district
In office
December 7, 1829 – December 5, 1830
Serving with John T. Anderson
Preceded byFleming B. Miller
Succeeded byFleming B. Miller
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the Botetourt district
In office
January 1, 1838 – December 2, 1839
Serving with William M. Peyton
Preceded byFleming B. Miller
Succeeded byJoseph Hannah
Succeeded byFleming B. Miller
Personal details
Born(1796-07-15)July 15, 1796
Fincastle, Virginia, U.S.
DiedMay 7, 1849(1849-05-07) (aged 52)
Fincastle, Virginia, U.S.

Thomas Shanks (July 15, 1796 – May 7, 1849) was an American slave owner and politician who won three elections to represent Botetourt County in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Early and family life

Born near what would become Amsterdam, Virginia, Thomas Shanks was the son of the former Hannah Morrison and her husband David Shanks. Thomas Shanks survived two wives. He married Grace Metcalfe Thomas (1795–1833) in 1825, and she bore two daughters and a son who survived their parents. Five years after her death, Thomas Shanks married widow Mary T. Harvey Kyle (1797–1845) on June 16, 1838, but had no further children in the seven years before her death.[1]

Career

Botetourt County voters first elected Shanks to represent them (part-time) as one of Botetourt County's two representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1829. He temporarily unseated veteran politician and lawyer Fleming B. Miller and served alongside lawyer and manufacturer John T. Anderson, who would become a veteran legislator.[2] Nearly a decade later, in 1837, Botetourt County voters elected Shanks once again as one of their delegates, this time alongside Whig and fellow slaveowner William M. Peyton,[3] and re-elected both men that fall, although the following year a census realignment cut the county's representation to just one man, Joseph Hannah.[4]

Thomas Shanks may have been a merchant (or even a slave trader), for the New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia published by Joseph Martin in 1835 described six mercantile establishments in Fincastle, as well as 3 churches and 260 homes. One of the general stores was run by Kyles, another by Utz and Hannah, and another by Shanks and Anderson.[5] However, Thomas Shanks' name does not appear in the 1830 U.S. federal census (the enumerator found only David, Christian and Lewis Shanks in Botetourt County).[6] In the 1840 U.S. Federal census, the last before his death as well as the last before listing occupations, Thomas Shanks appears on both the Fincastle page (as head of a household consisting of 4 free white persons and 11 slaves, mostly female), as well as on the general Botetourt County census enumeration (as owning 36 enslaved males).[7]

Death

Thomas Shanks died on May 7, 1849 (aged 52) and is buried at the Fincastle Presbyterian Church cemetery.[8] His son, Rev. David William Shanks (1830–1894), would receive a degree from Washington College, become a minister in Rockbridge County and later in Danville, survive the American Civil War and likewise marry twice. Thomas Shanks' two daughters who survived him were: Grace Ellen Shanks Glasgow (1826–1897) (second wife of William A. Glasgow and both of whose sons would graduate from Washington and Lee University and become lawyers)[9] and Eliza Cassandra Shanks McPheeters (1827–1872). Rev. D.W. Shanks neither owned slaves nor enlisted in the military, and in addition to his sons Lewis and David Shanks, had three long-lived but unmarried daughters: Margaret Cabell Shanks (1867–1935), Eliza McPheeters Shanks (1868–1938) and Juliet Irvine Shanks (1869–1958).

References

  1. ^ 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedule for Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. U.S. The Virginia slave censuses are not available online.
  2. ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619–1978 (Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 348
  3. ^ Memoir of William Madison Peyton, of Roanoke, together with some of his speeches in the House of delegates of Virginia, and his letters in reference to secession and the threatened civil war in the United States, etc., etc. Wilson. 22 July 1873.
  4. ^ Leonard, pp. 384, 388
  5. ^ Frances J. Niederer, The Town of Fincastle, Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia 1965) p. 33
  6. ^ 1830 U.S. Federal Census, Botetourt county
  7. ^ 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Botetourt county, both unstated and Fincastle enumerations
  8. ^ "Fincastle Presbyterian Church". Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  9. ^ Levere, William Collin (1912). Who's who in S.A.E.: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Members of the Fraternity. Evanston index Company. p. 98. william a. glasgow virginia.

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