sentences:  He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1886 and 1887.Thomas was elected Commonwealth attorney for the seventh judicial district of Kentucky in 1903 for a term of six years.Thomas was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death at Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, September 3, 1925.