Thomas Millet Hand (July 7, 1902 in Cape May, New Jersey – December 26, 1956 in

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) was an American

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politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1956.

Early life and education

Hand was born in Cape May, New Jersey on July 7, 1902, and attended the local public schools. He graduated in 1922 from the Dickinson School of Law, in

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, was admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May.

Political and business career

He was clerk of the

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Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1924 to 1928, and the prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County from 1928 to 1933. Hand served as the Mayor of Cape May from 1937 to 1944, and was the publisher of the ''Cape May Star and Wave'' from 1940 until his death. He was also a partner in the Mecray-Hand Co., a real estate and insurance business.Thomas Millet Hand
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Congress

Hand was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and had been reelected on November 6, 1956, to the

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. He served in the House from January 3, 1945, until his death.

Death

Hand died of a heart attack at his home in the Cold Spring section of Lower Township, New Jersey on December 26, 1956.Staff
"T. MILLET HAND, 54, LEGISLATOR, DEAD; U.S. Representative From Second Jersey District-- Once Cape May Mayor"
'' The New York Times'', December 27, 1956. Accessed August 10, 2016. "Thomas Millet Hand Representative in Congress from the Second New Jersey District, died this evening at his home in nearby Cold Spring apparently of a heart attack." His remains were cremated at Ewing Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey and interred in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in

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