Thomas Carbery was the sixth mayor of the City of Washington, serving from 1822 to 1824.
13 Facts About Thomas Carbery
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Thomas Carbery ran again for mayor in 1824 and 1826 but was not re-elected.
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Thomas Carbery was born and raised in St Mary's County, Maryland, one of at least eleven known children of Thomas Carbery Sr.
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Thomas Carbery ran again in 1826, re-matched with Weightman, and lost.
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Thomas Carbery himself was a captain in the US Army's 36th Infantry.
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Thomas Carbery enlisted on April 30,1813 and was honorably discharged on June 15,1815.
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Thomas Carbery was a charter member and officer of the Washington National Monument Society, the group that ultimately financed the construction of the Washington Monument, in the 1830s.
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Thomas Carbery ultimately became chairman of the monument's building committee when construction began in 1848.
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In 1844, Thomas Carbery was appointed by President John Tyler as Justice of the Peace for Washington County.
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Thomas Carbery would be re-nominated by every succeeding president until his death.
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Thomas Carbery lived in a large house on 17th Street NW, adjacent to The Ellipse, known as Thomas Carbery House.
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Thomas Carbery soon sat up in bed, the affliction apparently gone.
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Thomas Carbery was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington.