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Thomas Carbery
Thomas Carbery (or Carberry) (June 26, 1791 – May 23, 1863) was the sixth mayor of the City of Washington (now Washington, D.C.), serving from 1822 to 1824. He ran again for mayor in 1824 and 1826 but was not re-elected.
Thomas Carbery was born and raised in St. Mary's County, Maryland, one of at least eleven known children of Thomas Carbery Sr. and Mary Asonath Simmons. His Carbery forebears were of Irish extraction. Thomas' family relocated to the District of Columbia, near Georgetown, around 1805. The future mayor of Washington, D.C. was the nephew of Colonel Henry Carbery, a Revolutionary War officer and the first Adjutant General of Maryland. Another close relative, his aunt Eleanor Sewall née Carbery, was the wife of the prominent Georgetown City Tavern proprietor, Clement Sewall, another Revolutionary War officer and childhood friend of Colonel Henry Carbery.
When the beloved (and first popularly elected) mayor of Washington, Samuel N. Smallwood, announced that he would not run for a second elected term as mayor, Carbery sought the office. In 1822 he defeated Roger C. Weightman in a race so close that Weightman sued him; the lawsuit was tied up in court for the entire two years of Carbery's term.
In 1824, Smallwood again sought the office of mayor, defeating the incumbent Carbery's bid for re-election. Carbery ran again in 1826, re-matched with Weightman, and lost.
He was president of the National Metropolitan Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in Washington (it underwrote the payroll of the entire U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Carbery himself was a captain in the U.S. Army's 36th Infantry. He enlisted on April 30, 1813 and was honorably discharged on June 15, 1815.
Carbery was a charter member and officer of the Washington National Monument Society, the group that ultimately financed the construction of the Washington Monument, in the 1830s. He ultimately became chairman of the monument's building committee when construction began in 1848.
During the 1820s, Carbery was a member of the prestigious Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.
In 1844, Carbery was appointed by President John Tyler as Justice of the Peace for Washington County. He would be re-nominated by every succeeding president until his death.
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Thomas Carbery
Thomas Carbery (or Carberry) (June 26, 1791 – May 23, 1863) was the sixth mayor of the City of Washington (now Washington, D.C.), serving from 1822 to 1824. He ran again for mayor in 1824 and 1826 but was not re-elected.
Thomas Carbery was born and raised in St. Mary's County, Maryland, one of at least eleven known children of Thomas Carbery Sr. and Mary Asonath Simmons. His Carbery forebears were of Irish extraction. Thomas' family relocated to the District of Columbia, near Georgetown, around 1805. The future mayor of Washington, D.C. was the nephew of Colonel Henry Carbery, a Revolutionary War officer and the first Adjutant General of Maryland. Another close relative, his aunt Eleanor Sewall née Carbery, was the wife of the prominent Georgetown City Tavern proprietor, Clement Sewall, another Revolutionary War officer and childhood friend of Colonel Henry Carbery.
When the beloved (and first popularly elected) mayor of Washington, Samuel N. Smallwood, announced that he would not run for a second elected term as mayor, Carbery sought the office. In 1822 he defeated Roger C. Weightman in a race so close that Weightman sued him; the lawsuit was tied up in court for the entire two years of Carbery's term.
In 1824, Smallwood again sought the office of mayor, defeating the incumbent Carbery's bid for re-election. Carbery ran again in 1826, re-matched with Weightman, and lost.
He was president of the National Metropolitan Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in Washington (it underwrote the payroll of the entire U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Carbery himself was a captain in the U.S. Army's 36th Infantry. He enlisted on April 30, 1813 and was honorably discharged on June 15, 1815.
Carbery was a charter member and officer of the Washington National Monument Society, the group that ultimately financed the construction of the Washington Monument, in the 1830s. He ultimately became chairman of the monument's building committee when construction began in 1848.
During the 1820s, Carbery was a member of the prestigious Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.
In 1844, Carbery was appointed by President John Tyler as Justice of the Peace for Washington County. He would be re-nominated by every succeeding president until his death.