Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (1837–1890), American politician from Tennessee; U.S. representative 1873–79
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Ron Thornburgh (contemporary), American politician; Secretary of State of Kansas since 1994
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Dick Thornburgh (b. 1932), American politician; governor of Pennsylvania 1979–87; U.S. Attorney General 1988–91
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A reconnaissance team comprising about four officers including Major Thornburgh and two scouts probed cautiously toward the crest of Yellow Jacket Pass seeing as they proceeded mounted warriors passing back and forth along its crest.
After Thornburgh retired in 1878, Houk finally gained the Republican nomination for Congress, narrowly defeating Knoxville Chronicle editor William Rule, and was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress later that year.