Thomas E. Trowbridge

Who was Thomas E. Trowbridge?

Thomas E. Trowbridge, known as Tom Trowbridge, originally a dairy farmer from Carbon County, Wyoming, served as a Democrat in both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature from 1979 to 1986. He was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives for two two-year terms, and he served a single four-year term in the Wyoming State Senate. In 1987, Democratic Governor Mike Sullivan named him to the Wyoming Board of Equalization.

In 1990, he relocated to Casper to become the director of the Wyoming Rural Electric Association. In 1993 he was appointed in the Clinton administration as Wyoming state director of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Trowbridge was born in Superior in Nuckolls County in southern Nebraska to Elton Trowbridge and the former Irene Kohr, who were teachers and farmers. He came to Carbon County in 1935, when his parents purchased the farm on Cow Creek. He graduated in 1948 from Saratoga High School, where he participated in 4-H Club and was the editor of the school yearbook.