HALSEY, THOMAS JEFFERSON, a Representative from Missouri;
born in Dover, Morris County, N.J., May 4, 1863;
in 1878 moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled on a farm near Holden, Johnson County;
attended public and private schools, Home Academy at Holden, Mo., Holden (Mo.) College, the State normal school at Warrensburg, Mo., and the University of Missouri at Columbia;
taught school in 1880 and 1881;
engaged in the mercantile business at Holden, Mo., in 1882;
member of the State Republican committee 1896-1898;
delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1896, 1908, and 1912;
mayor of Holden 1902-1904;
moved to Sedalia, Mo., in 1904 and engaged in the wholesale tea and coffee business;
member of the executive committee of the Missouri State Roads commission 1906-1910;
moved to Glendale, Calif., in 1910 and engaged in the mercantile business;
returned to Holden, Mo., in 1911 and engaged in the milling and grain business;
member of the Holden Board of Education in 1911 and 1912;
member of the board of regents, Central Missouri Teachers College at Warrensburg, 1928-1932;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress;
returned to former business activities in Holden, Mo.;
died in Westfield, N.J., March 17, 1951;
interment in Holden Cemetery, Holden, Mo.
