Thomas Oakes (representative)

Thomas Oakes (18 June 1644 – 15 July 1719) was a physician and politician in New England, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 18 June 1644, brother of Urian Oakes, and graduated at Harvard College in 1662. He subsequently studied medicine in London, and obtained some reputation as a physician. He was elected a representative after the Glorious Revolution and the expulsion of Sir Edmund Andros in 1689, and was chosen speaker. In 1690 he was chosen assistant. In that year he went to England with Elisha Cooke to represent the interests of the colonists in the matter of a new charter. He was again chosen speaker to the House of Representatives in 1705. He died at Easthaven in Massachusetts on 15 July 1719, leaving two sons.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Oakes, Urian". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.