Jefferson Gage Thurber (December 30, 1807 – May 6, 1857) was an American lawyer, Democratic Party politician, and Michigan pioneer.
Jefferson G. Thurber was born in Unity, New Hampshire, and while a child moved to Canandaigua, New York, with his parents.
[1][2] In 1833, he went west to the Michigan Territory and started a legal practice in Monroe, where he resided for most of the rest of his life.
[1] He was also a delegate to the 1856 Democratic National Convention which nominated James Buchanan over the incumbent, President Franklin Pierce.
Jefferson Thurber married Mary Bartlett Gerrish in 1834, they had at least eight children, though two died in infancy.