Thomas Menees

Thomas Menees (June 26, 1823 – September 6, 1905) was a Confederate politician who represented Tennessee in the Confederate States Congress during much of the American Civil War. He was trained as physician, and between 1874 and 1895 served as the dean of the merged medical departments of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University.

Biography

Menees was born in Davidson County, Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee State Senate in 1857. During the war, he represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Menees was trained as a physician and received his M.D. degree from Transylvania University in 1846. Before engaging in politics, he worked as a doctor in Springfield and later, after the Civil War, in Nashville. In 1873 he was appointed professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville. In 1874, the medical departments of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University have been merged and Menees became their dean. He held this position until 1895.