Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Thomas Johnson Pickett, Sr. (March 17, 1821 – December 24, 1891) was an American politician from Kentucky. Trained at a young age as a typesetter, Pickett founded a number of papers throughout Illinois, Kentucky, and Nebraska. He was the president of the Illinois Editorial Association and was a delegate to the Bloomington Convention. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1860, then raised a pair of regiments during the Civil War, reaching the rank of Colonel. He returned to Kentucky after the war and ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress. Late in his life he managed papers in Nebraska with his family. He also served as Grand Master of Illinois and Kentucky."@en }
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- Thomas_J._Pickett abstract "Thomas Johnson Pickett, Sr. (March 17, 1821 – December 24, 1891) was an American politician from Kentucky. Trained at a young age as a typesetter, Pickett founded a number of papers throughout Illinois, Kentucky, and Nebraska. He was the president of the Illinois Editorial Association and was a delegate to the Bloomington Convention. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1860, then raised a pair of regiments during the Civil War, reaching the rank of Colonel. He returned to Kentucky after the war and ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress. Late in his life he managed papers in Nebraska with his family. He also served as Grand Master of Illinois and Kentucky.".