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      filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 7,
      2009</font></div>
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      No. 333 ______</font></div>
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STATES</font></div>
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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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D.C.&#160;&#160;20549</font></div>
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S-8</font></div>
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STATEMENT</font></div>
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THE</font></div>
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ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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&amp; BETTS CORPORATION</font></div>
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specified in its char</font>ter)</font></div>
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Corporation Employees&#8217; Investment Plan</font></font></div>
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Smith, Jr. Esq.</font></div>
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General Counsel &amp; Assistant Secretary</font></div>
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38125</font></font></div>
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address of agent for service)</font></div>
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252-8000</font></font></div>
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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer&#8221; and &#8220;smaller
reporting company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</font></div>
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      416(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also
      covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant
      to the employee benefit plan described herein. Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of
      the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also registers
      such indeterminate number of additional shares as may become issuable in
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      with stock splits, stock dividends or similar
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      pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933.&#160;&#160;The
      proposed maximum offering price per share, the proposed maximum aggregate
      offering price, and the amount of the registration fee are computed based
      upon $32.36, the average of the high and low sales prices of the Common
      Stock of Thomas &amp; Betts Corporation as reported on the New York Stock
      Exchange on May 6, 2009.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Explanatory
Note</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Thomas
&amp; Betts Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation (&#8220;Thomas &amp; Betts&#8221;,
&#8220;Company&#8221; or &#8220;Registrant&#8221;) hereby files this Registration Statement on Form S-8
filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the
offering of up to 250,000 additional shares of Thomas &amp; Betts Corporation
Common Stock under the Thomas &amp; Betts Corporation Employees&#8217; Investment
Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2002.&#160;&#160;The Thomas
&amp; Betts Corporation Employees' Investment Plan is the Company's 401(k)
plan.&#160;&#160;Eligible employees may direct their deferrals and employer
match into the Thomas &amp; Betts Company Stock Fund, which is represented by
units consisting of a fractional share of Company stock and a cash
investment.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Item
3.&#160;&#160;Incorporation by Reference</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 33-56789) filed as of December 8, 1994,
as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 dated May 2, 1996, as supplemented
by the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-93101) filed as of December
20, 1999, and as further supplemented by Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No.
333-122483) filed as of February 2, 2005 are hereby incorporated by reference
herein.</font></div>
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with the issuance of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby will be passed
upon for the Company by W. David Smith, Jr., Assistant General Counsel and
Assistant Secretary of the Company.&#160;&#160;Mr. Smith is the beneficial owner
of 5840 shares of the Company&#8217;s Common Stock and has options to purchase 25,654
additional shares of Common Stock of the Company, of which 10,091 are
exercisable within the next 60 days.&#160;&#160;Mr. Smith is eligible to
participate in the Thomas &amp; Betts Corporation Employees&#8217; Investment
Plan.</font></div>
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OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY. No person who is or was a director of the corporation, or
such person&#8217;s heirs, executors or administrators, shall be personally liable to
the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director; provided, however, that this provision shall not eliminate
or limit the liability of any such party (i) for any breach of a director&#8217;s duty
of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) for acts or omissions
not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation
of law, or (iii) for unlawful distributions under the Tennessee Business
Corporation Act. Any repeal or modification of the provisions of this Article
VIII, directly or by the adoption of an inconsistent provision of this Charter,
shall not adversely affect any right or protection in favor of a particular
individual at the time of such repeal or modification.</font></div>
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48-18-501 through 509 of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act authorize a
corporation to provide for the indemnification of officers, directors, employees
and agents in terms sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain
circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred)
arising under the Securities Act.</font></div>
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of Officers and Directors. Section 1. Right to Indemnification. Each person who
was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in
any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (hereinafter a &#8220;proceeding&#8221;), by reason of the fact that he or
she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a
director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of
the Corporation as a director or officer of another corporation or of a
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with
respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director or officer or in any other
capacity while serving as a director or officer, shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by the
Tennessee Business Corporation Act, as the same exists or may hereafter be
amended (but, in the case of any such amendment,</font></div>
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provide </font>broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the
Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability
and loss (including attorneys&#8217; fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or
suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall
continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall
inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators;
provided, however, that the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking
indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by
such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the
Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall
include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in
defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided,
however, that, if the Tennessee Business Corporation Act requires, the payment
of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a
director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is
rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without
limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final
disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation
of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all
amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section or
otherwise.</font></div>
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2. Right of Claimant to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 1 of this Article
is not paid in full by the Corporation within ninety days after a written claim
has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter
bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim,
and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be
paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any
such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses
incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where
the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the
Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make
it permissible under the Tennessee Business Corporation Act for the Corporation
to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such
defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation
(including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its
shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such
action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the
Tennessee Business Corporation Act, nor an actual determination by the
Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its
shareholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct,
shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has
not met the applicable standard of conduct.</font></div>
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3. Non-Exclusivity of Rights; Continuation of Rights. The right to
indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding
in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article shall not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire
under any statute, provision of the Charter, Bylaw, agreement, vote of
shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. All rights to
indemnification under this Article shall be deemed to be a contract between the
Corporation and each director or officer of the Corporation who serves or served
in such capacity at any time while this Article is in effect. Any repeal or
modification of this Article or any repeal or modification of relevant
provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act or any other applicable
laws shall not in any way diminish any rights to indemnification of such
director or officer or the obligations of the Corporation arising
hereunder.</font></div>
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4. Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect
itself and any director or officer of the Corporation or another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense,
liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the
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to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
Memphis, State of Tennessee, on this 7<font style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">th</font> day of May,
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constitutes and appoints Kenneth W. Fluke, J.N. Raines, and W. David Smith, Jr.
and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
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As
      filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 7,
      2009
Registration
      No. 333 ______
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C.  20549
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933
THOMAS
& BETTS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as
specified in its char
ter)
Tennessee
22-1326940
(State or other
      jurisdiction
(I.R.S.Employer
      Identification No.)
of
      incorporation or organization)
8155
      T&B Boulevard
Memphis,
      Tennessee
38125
(Address of principal
      executive offices)
(zip
    code)
Thomas & Betts
Corporation Employees' Investment Plan
(Full
title of the plan)
W. David
Smith, Jr. Esq.
Assistant
General Counsel & Assistant Secretary
Thomas
& Betts Corporation
8155
T&B Boulevard
Memphis, Tennessee
38125
(Name and
address of agent for service)
(901)
252-8000
(Telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller
reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large
      accelerated filer
x
Accelerated
      filer
o
Non-accelerated
      filer
o
(Do not check
      if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company
o
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
      of Securities to be Registered
Amount to be Registered
(1)
Proposed Maximum Offering Price
      per Unit
(2)
Proposed Maximum Aggregate
      Offering Price
(2)
Amount of Registration Fee
(2)
Common
      stock, $.10 par value
250,000
$32.36
$8,090,000
$451.42
(1)
Pursuant to Rule
      416(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also
      covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant
      to the employee benefit plan described herein. Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of
      the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also registers
      such indeterminate number of additional shares as may become issuable in
connection
      with stock splits, stock dividends or similar
      transactions.
(2)
Calculated
      pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933.  The
      proposed maximum offering price per share, the proposed maximum aggregate
      offering price, and the amount of the registration fee are computed based
      upon $32.36, the average of the high and low sales prices of the Common
      Stock of Thomas & Betts Corporation as reported on the New York Stock
      Exchange on May 6, 2009.
Explanatory
Note
Thomas
& Betts Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation ("Thomas & Betts",
"Company" or "Registrant") hereby files this Registration Statement on Form S-8
filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the
offering of up to 250,000 additional shares of Thomas & Betts Corporation
Common Stock under the Thomas & Betts Corporation Employees' Investment
Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2002.  The Thomas
& Betts Corporation Employees' Investment Plan is the Company's 401(k)
plan.  Eligible employees may direct their deferrals and employer
match into the Thomas & Betts Company Stock Fund, which is represented by
units consisting of a fractional share of Company stock and a cash
investment.
Item
3.  Incorporation by Reference
The
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 33-56789) filed as of December 8, 1994,
as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 dated May 2, 1996, as supplemented
by the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-93101) filed as of December
20, 1999, and as further supplemented by Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No.
333-122483) filed as of February 2, 2005 are hereby incorporated by reference
herein.
Item
5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Certain legal matters in connection
with the issuance of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby will be passed
upon for the Company by W. David Smith, Jr., Assistant General Counsel and
Assistant Secretary of the Company.  Mr. Smith is the beneficial owner
of 5840 shares of the Company's Common Stock and has options to purchase 25,654
additional shares of Common Stock of the Company, of which 10,091 are
exercisable within the next 60 days.  Mr. Smith is eligible to
participate in the Thomas & Betts Corporation Employees' Investment
Plan.
Item
6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Article
VIII of the Company's Amended and Restated Charter provides:
LIMITATION
OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY. No person who is or was a director of the corporation, or
such person's heirs, executors or administrators, shall be personally liable to
the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director; provided, however, that this provision shall not eliminate
or limit the liability of any such party (i) for any breach of a director's duty
of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) for acts or omissions
not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation
of law, or (iii) for unlawful distributions under the Tennessee Business
Corporation Act. Any repeal or modification of the provisions of this Article
VIII, directly or by the adoption of an inconsistent provision of this Charter,
shall not adversely affect any right or protection in favor of a particular
individual at the time of such repeal or modification.
Sections
48-18-501 through 509 of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act authorize a
corporation to provide for the indemnification of officers, directors, employees
and agents in terms sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain
circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred)
arising under the Securities Act.
Article 5
of the Company's by-laws provides:
Indemnification
of Officers and Directors. Section 1. Right to Indemnification. Each person who
was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in
any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or
she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a
director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of
the Corporation as a director or officer of another corporation or of a
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with
respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director or officer or in any other
capacity while serving as a director or officer, shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by the
Tennessee Business Corporation Act, as the same exists or may hereafter be
amended (but, in the case of any such amendment,
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only to
the extent that such amendment permits the
Corporation to
provide
broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the
Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability
and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or
suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall
continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall
inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators;
provided, however, that the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking
indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by
such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the
Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall
include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in
defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided,
however, that, if the Tennessee Business Corporation Act requires, the payment
of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a
director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is
rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without
limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final
disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation
of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all
amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section or
otherwise.
Section
2. Right of Claimant to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 1 of this Article
is not paid in full by the Corporation within ninety days after a written claim
has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter
bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim,
and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be
paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any
such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses
incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where
the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the
Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make
it permissible under the Tennessee Business Corporation Act for the Corporation
to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such
defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation
(including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its
shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such
action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the
Tennessee Business Corporation Act, nor an actual determination by the
Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its
shareholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct,
shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has
not met the applicable standard of conduct.
Section
3. Non-Exclusivity of Rights; Continuation of Rights. The right to
indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding
in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article shall not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire
under any statute, provision of the Charter, Bylaw, agreement, vote of
shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. All rights to
indemnification under this Article shall be deemed to be a contract between the
Corporation and each director or officer of the Corporation who serves or served
in such capacity at any time while this Article is in effect. Any repeal or
modification of this Article or any repeal or modification of relevant
provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act or any other applicable
laws shall not in any way diminish any rights to indemnification of such
director or officer or the obligations of the Corporation arising
hereunder.
Section
4. Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect
itself and any director or officer of the Corporation or another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense,
liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the
Tennessee Business Corporation Act.
Item
8.   Exhibits.
Exhibit Number
Exhibit
5
Opinion
      of W. David Smith, Jr., Esq.
23.1
Consent
      of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting
  firm.
23.2
Consent
      of counsel (contained in Exhibit
5).
24
Powers
      of Attorney (included as part of the signature page
  hereto)
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
Memphis, State of Tennessee, on this 7
th
day of May,
2009.
THOMAS
      & BETTS CORPORATION
(Company)
By:
/s/
Kenneth
      W. Fluke
Kenneth
      W. Fluke
Senior
      Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
KNOW ALL
MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Kenneth W. Fluke, J.N. Raines, and W. David Smith, Jr.
and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/S/   
      DOMINIC J. PILEGGI
Chairman
      of the Board,
May
      7, 2009
DOMINIC
      J. PILEGGI
and
      Chief Executive Officer
(
Principal Executive
      Officer
)
/S/   
      JEANANNE K. HAUSWALD
Director
May
      7, 2009
JEANANNE
      K. HAUSWALD
/S/   
      DEAN JERNIGAN
Director
May
      7, 2009
DEAN
      JERNIGAN
/S/   
      RONALD B. KALICH
Director
May
      7, 2009
RONALD
      B. KALICH
/S/   
      KENNETH R. MASTERSON
Director
May
      7, 2009
KENNETH
      R. MASTERSON
/S/   
      JEAN-PAUL RICHARD
Director
May
      7, 2009
JEAN-PAUL
      RICHARD
/S/   
      RUFUS H. RIVERS
Director
May
      7, 2009
RUFUS
      H. RIVERS
/S/   
      KEVIN L. ROBERG
Director
May
      7, 2009
KEVIN
      L. ROBERG
/S/   
      DAVID D. STEVENS
Director
May
      7, 2009
DAVID
      D. STEVENS
/S/   
      WILLIAM H. WALTRIP
Director
May
      7, 2009
WILLIAM
      H. WALTRIP
/S/   
      KENNETH W. FLUKE
Senior
      Vice President and Chief
May
      7, 2009
KENNETH
      W. FLUKE
Financial
      Officer
(Principal
      Financial Officer)
/S/   
      WILLIAM E. WEAVER, JR.
Vice
      President–Controller
May
      7, 2009
WILLIAM
      E. WEAVER, JR.
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, the Plan has duly caused this registration statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Memphis, State of Tennessee, on May 7, 2009.
THOMAS
      & BETTS CORPORATION
EMPLOYEES'
      INVESTMENT PLAN
By:
/s/
      William E. Weaver, Jr.
William
      E. Weaver, Jr.
Plan
      Administrator
EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit Number
Exhibit
5
Opinion
      of W. David Smith, Jr., Esq.
23.1
Consent
      of KPMG LLP,
independent
      registered public accounting firm
.
23.2
Consent
      of counsel (contained in Exhibit 5).
24
Powers
      of Attorney (included as part of the signature page
    hereto).