Early Life
Born on a farm in Phillips County, Kansas, Thomas attended the rural schools and the Central Normal College at Great Bend, Kansas. He taught school, serving as superintendent of schools of Phillips County, Kansas from 1898 to 1903, and as register of land office at Colby, Kansas from 1906 to 1909, when he moved to Gooding, Idaho, where he engaged in banking and livestock business.
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