Reverend Thomas Plummer Revelle (1868 – July 5, 1937) was an American attorney, Republican politician, and preacher, who was a proponent for the founding of Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Biography

Revelle was born in Maryland in 1868, but moved to Seattle in 1898 to serve as a minister at a local Methodist church. He studied law at the University of Washington and became a member of the Washington State Bar Association. He ran for City Council and served from 1906 to 1911. In 1907, he sponored a bill that helped open the Pike Place Market. He ran for Congress in 1910, but lost the election. He served as a United States Attorney for the Western district of Washington. Revelle prosecuted and convicted the former Seattle Police Department official turned bootlegger Roy Olmstead during Prohibition. Revelle also served as an attorney for the Olmstead v. United States case. Revelle died on July 5, 1937 of heart disease and pneumonia.