He represented northern Fond du Lac County as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for four terms.
He later served part of a term in the Kansas House of Representatives, but was unseated due to a dispute over his election.
[3] In addition, he was a member of the Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors for nine years between 1854 and 1866, and was chairman for 1857 and 1861.
[6][7][8] He remained involved in Kansas politics and served as an officer of the state Grange and was active in the Greenback movement in the latter half of the 1870s.
Thomas Boyd was an Irishman who served in the British Army, he brought the family to America and purchased land in Calumet and Fond du Lac.