{{short description|American politician}} {{For|the Dutch association footballer|Thomas Beekman (footballer)}}
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Thomas Beekman | image = | state = New York | district = 22nd | term_start = March 4, 1829 | term_end = March 3, 1831 | preceded = John G. Stower | succeeded = Edward C. Reed | birth_date = {{birth-date|July 4, 1790}} | death_date = {{death-date and age|February 2, 1870|July 4, 1790}} | birth_place = Kinderhook, New York, United States | death_place = Kinderhook, New York | parents = John T. Beekman<br>Annatje Pruyn | spouse = Lydia Van Schaack Beekman | children = | profession = lawyer, farmer, politician | party = Anti-Jacksonian<br>Anti-Masonic | relatives = John P. Beekman (brother) | alma_mater = }} '''Thomas Beekman''' (July 4, 1790 – February 2, 1870)<ref>New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, [https://books.google.com/books?id=a9MUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA245 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record], Volumes 20-22, 1889, page 245</ref> was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.<ref name="BIOguide">{{cite web|title=BEEKMAN, Thomas - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000308|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=3 February 2017}}</ref>
==Biography== Beekman was born in Kinderhook, New York to John J. Beekman and Annatje Pruyn.<ref>Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Kinderhook, Book 21</ref> His elder brother was Dr. John Pruyn Beekman (1788–1861), a member of the New York State Senate from 1845 to 1847.<ref name="Klett">{{cite book|last1=Klett|first1=Joseph R.|title=Genealogies of New Jersey Families: Families A-Z, pre-American notes on old New Netherland families, Vol. I|date=1996|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806314914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4zStKaPmsEC&pg=PA158|accessdate=3 February 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Beekman studied law and became an attorney and farmer in Smithfield and later Peterboro.<ref name="poligrave">{{cite web|title=Thomas Beekman|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=22 August 2013}}</ref>
==Career== Beekman served in local offices including as a town clerk,<ref>Luna M. Hammond Whitney, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JiUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 History of Madison County, State of New York], 1872, page 711</ref> and was active in the militia as aide-de-camp to the commander of its 17th Division.<ref>New York Council of Appointment, [http://home.comcast.net/~ingallsam/MM/mmMinutes.html Military Minutes, 1783-1821], accessed January 15, 2013</ref> Beekman was also active in the Anti-Masonic movement of the 1820s and 1830s.<ref>Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvAxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA86 The Proceedings of the Second United States Anti-Masonic Convention], 1832, page 86</ref>
Elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, Beekman was U. S. Representative for the twenty-second district of New York and served one term, from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1831.<ref>Roger Sherman Skinner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6o0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 The New-York State Register for 1830-1831], 1830, page 54</ref> In 1831 he was an unsuccessful Anti-Masonic candidate for the New York State Senate.<ref>Henry J. Cookinham, [https://archive.org/details/historyofoneidac01cook_0/page/n168 <!-- pg=101 --> History of Oneida County, New York], Volume 1, Part 1, 1912, page 101</ref>
Beekman later moved back to Kinderhook, where he farmed, practiced law, was active in several businesses, including the Kinderhook National Bank,<ref>Edward Augustus Collier, [https://archive.org/details/ahistoryoldkind00collgoog/page/n232 <!-- pg=301 --> A History of Old Kinderhook From Aboriginal Days to the Present Time], 1914, page 301</ref> and served as Columbia County Excise Commissioner from 1857 to 1859.<ref>Franklin Ellis, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcolumbi00ever#page/78/mode/2up History of Columbia County, New York], 1878, page 79</ref> After his retirement in the 1860s he spent summers in Kinderhook and winters living with his daughter in New York City.
He was married to Lydia Van Schaack.<ref name="poligrave" />
==Death== Beekman died in Kinderhook on February 2, 1870 (age 79 years, 213 days). He is interred at Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Beekman&GSiman=1&GScid=406606&GRid=36394607& Thomas Beekman] at [http://www.findagrave.com/index.html Find A Grave], accessed January 15, 2013</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{CongBio|B000308}} *[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/thomas_beekman/412013 Govtrack US Congress]
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