Birth Date: | 1868 |
Death Date: | July 5, 1937 (aged 69) |
Alma Mater: | University of Washington |
Birth Place: | Maryland |
Office: | Seattle City Council |
Order: | Member of |
Term End: | 1911 |
Term Start: | 1906 |
Birth Name: | Thomas Plummer Revelle |
Honorific Prefix: | Reverend |
Party: | Republican |
Reverend Thomas Plummer Revelle (1868 - July 5, 1937) was an American attorney, Republican politician, and preacher, who was a proponent for the founding of Seattle's Pike Place Market.
Revelle was born in Maryland in 1868, but moved to Seattle in 1898 to serve as a minister at a local Methodist church.[1] He studied law at the University of Washington and became a member of the Washington State Bar Association. He ran for City Council and served from 1906 to 1911.[2] In 1907, he sponored a bill that helped open the Pike Place Market.[3] He ran for Congress in 1910, but lost the election. He served as a United States Attorney for the Western district of Washington.[4] Revelle prosecuted and convicted the former Seattle Police Department official turned bootlegger Roy Olmstead during Prohibition.[5] Revelle also served as an attorney for the Olmstead v. United States case.[6]
Revelle died on July 5, 1937 of heart disease and pneumonia.[7]