Thomas Nelson

Thomas Dewey Nelson, Sr. (6 July 1894?/1895 - 9 January 2007) was a verified American supercentenarian. At the time of his death aged 111/112 years, 185 days, he was the oldest man in the metropolitan United States and second-oldest in the entire US and the world (Emiliano Mercado del Toro, who was living in the US territory of Puerto Rico, was older and died 15 days after Nelson). While he is verified as born in 1895, a rechecking of his case suggested he was born in 1894, as his 1900 census record lists his birth month as "July 1894".