Thomas F. Dewey, Jr. grew up in Clyde, Ohio.  He was a member of the undefeated high school basketball team in the 1962-1963 season and the undefeated golf team in 1963.  He graduated from Clyde High School in 1963 as Salutatorian of his class. 

He went to Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was on the varsity golf and basketball teams for the 4 years and graduated in 1967.  He went to The Ohio State University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated in 1970.  While in law school he was in Army ROTC, and after passing the Ohio State Bar examination, he served in the U.S. Army as a captain with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 1971 to 1976.

While at his first duty assignment with the 4^th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado, he was a criminal defense counsel.  He served one year with 8^th Army Headquarters in Seoul, Korea, where he worked in Administrative Law.    He served as Chief Defense Counsel for a year and then was the Prosecutor for criminal cases in Stuttgart, Germany, with 2^nd Support Command.
 

After completing his tour of duty in the Army in 1976, he returned to Clyde and joined the law firm of Dewey & Dewey with his Father, Thomas Dewey, Sr. and Brother, John P. Dewey.  

He has been active as a board member, Sunday school teacher and choir member in the Clyde Christian Church.  He has been President two times and was Treasurer for 6 years at The Fremont Country Club. He was on the Board of Directors of The Clyde Savings Bank Company for a number of years.   He is a member and officer of the Toledo District Golf Association Board of Trustees.  He is a member of the Clyde Public Library Board of Trustees.   He served as Chairman of the Memorial Hospital Foundation during 2007 in Fremont, Ohio.  He was a member of the Clyde-Green Springs Board of Education from 1986 to 1994.

While in the Army he met his wife, Barbara, who was an Army nurse.   She had served in Viet Nam in 1967 and 1968.  They were married in 1971.  Barb resigned from the Army in 1973.  She has worked at Whirlpool Corporation in Clyde since 1981 and is involved with worker’s compensation and health care for the employees.  Barb and Tom have three children and four grandchildren.