SISSON, THOMAS UPTON, a Representative from Mississippi;
born near McCool, Attala County, Miss., September 22, 1869;
moved with his father to Choctaw County, Miss.;
attended the common schools and the French Camp Academy, Mississippi;
was graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarkesville, Tenn., in 1889;
principal of Carthage High School in 1889 and 1890 and of the graded schools of Kosciusko, Attala County, Miss., 1890-1892;
studied law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and was graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.;
was admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn., in 1894 and commenced practice in Winona, Montgomery County, Miss.;
member of the State senate in 1898;
district attorney of the fifth judicial district 1903-1907;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1923);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress;
died in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1923;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Winona, Miss.
