Thomas Millet Hand was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945-57. 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 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey.

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  • Thomas Millet Hand was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945-57. 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 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey. He was clerk of the Cape May County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1924-1928, and the prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County from 1928-1933. Hand served as the mayor of Cape May from 1937-1944, 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. 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 Eighty-fifth Congress. He served in the House from January 3, 1945, until his death in Cold Spring, New Jersey on December 26, 1956. His remains were cremated at Ewing Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey and interred in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in Cape May.
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  • Thomas Millet Hand was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945-57. 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 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey.
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