Son of William and Mary (Saunders) Gholson, he married Cary Ann Gholson on 14 May 1829. He was a member of the second CSA Congress. After the war, he formed a cotton and tobacco commission house in Liverpool, England with his son-in-law Col. Norman G. Walker. He died suddenly from an aneurism of the heart in Savannah, Ga. while returning from a trip to England. (Information from cemetery register, family records and headstone)
GHOLSON, Thomas Saunders, representative, was born in Gholsonville, Va., Dec. 9, 1809; son of Maj. William Gholson. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1827; was admitted to the bar; elected judge of the state circuit court in 1859, and in 1862 was elected a representative in the Confederate congress serving 1862-65. He promoted the building of new railway lines in his native state, founded and helped to support a public library in Petersburg, Va., and was prominent in the councils of Virginia. He died at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13, 1868. (Biographies of Notable Americans, Vol. IV, p. 272, 1904.)
GHOLSON, Thomas Saunders, representative, was born in Gholsonville, Va., Dec. 9, 1809; son of Maj. William Gholson. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1827; was admitted to the bar; elected judge of the state circuit court in 1859, and in 1862 was elected a representative in the Confederate congress serving 1862-65. He promoted the building of new railway lines in his native state, founded and helped to support a public library in Petersburg, Va., and was prominent in the councils of Virginia. He died at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13, 1868. (Biographies of Notable Americans, Vol. IV, p. 272, 1904.)
Son of William and Mary (Saunders) Gholson, he married Cary Ann Gholson on 14 May 1829. He was a member of the second CSA Congress. After the war, he formed a cotton and tobacco commission house in Liverpool, England with his son-in-law Col. Norman G. Walker. He died suddenly from an aneurism of the heart in Savannah, Ga. while returning from a trip to England. (Information from cemetery register, family records and headstone)
GHOLSON, Thomas Saunders, representative, was born in Gholsonville, Va., Dec. 9, 1809; son of Maj. William Gholson. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1827; was admitted to the bar; elected judge of the state circuit court in 1859, and in 1862 was elected a representative in the Confederate congress serving 1862-65. He promoted the building of new railway lines in his native state, founded and helped to support a public library in Petersburg, Va., and was prominent in the councils of Virginia. He died at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13, 1868. (Biographies of Notable Americans, Vol. IV, p. 272, 1904.)
GHOLSON, Thomas Saunders, representative, was born in Gholsonville, Va., Dec. 9, 1809; son of Maj. William Gholson. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1827; was admitted to the bar; elected judge of the state circuit court in 1859, and in 1862 was elected a representative in the Confederate congress serving 1862-65. He promoted the building of new railway lines in his native state, founded and helped to support a public library in Petersburg, Va., and was prominent in the councils of Virginia. He died at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13, 1868. (Biographies of Notable Americans, Vol. IV, p. 272, 1904.)
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