Family
Thomas and his wife Florence had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Thomas Peavey Brooks, on Nov. 1, 1907, who would later become an Idaho State Senator and director of the United States Mint. After the death of her first husband, Art Peavey, Mary married C. Wayland Brooks, a colleague of Senator's Thomas' in the Senate from Illinois. A grandson, John Peavey, served for over two decades in the Idaho Senate and was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Idaho in 1994.
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