Born in Perryville, Maryland, Thomas attended private schools and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1783. He moved to "Fairland" in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, around 1789, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia on December 15, 1787, but did not engage in extensive practice. He was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress, and served from March 4, 1799, to March 3, 1801, but declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1800.
In 1810, Thomas sold Fairland, freed most of his slaves, and moved to Pennsylvania,[2] where he lived until his death near Leiperville. He is interred in the Chester Friends Meetinghouse Cemetery in Chester, Pennsylvania.
^"THOMAS, John Chew". www.history.house.gov. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
^Flexner, James Thomas (1993). An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 64–66. ISBN0-8232-1520-2. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
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