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Thomas Banks Cabaniss (August 31, 1835 – August 14, 1915) was aUnited States representative fromGeorgia. He was a lawyer inForsyth, Georgia and served in theGeorgia House of Representatives andGeorgia Senate.
Born inForsyth,Georgia, he attended private schools and Penfield College (nowMercer University), graduated from theUniversity of Georgia in 1853, studied law, and was admitted to thebar in 1861.
He entered theConfederate States Army on April 1, 1861, and served throughout theCivil War, after which he returned to Forsyth and commenced the practice of law.
He was a member of theGeorgia House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867 and was appointed assistant secretary of theGeorgia State Senate in 1870 and secretary in 1873. He resigned to becomeSolicitor General of the Flint circuit, which office he held until 1877; he served in the Georgia Senate from 1878 to 1880 and 1884 to 1886.
Cabaniss was elected as aDemocrat to theFifty-third United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894, and was appointed a member of theDawes Commission to adjust affairs in theIndian Territory. He was mayor of Forsyth in 1910 and judge of the city court in 1913 and 1914.
He died in Forsyth in 1915; interment was in Forsyth's Oakland Cemetery.
Cabaniss' cousin,Thomas Chipman McRae ofArkansas, was also a U.S. Representative.
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