Thompson, Maurice – Thompson, William Tappan
Thompson, Maurice
soldier, geologist, state legislator, author, poet, was born Sept. 9, 1844, in Fairfield, Ind. He is a writer of Crawfordsville, Ind., who was a confederate soldier during the civil war, and state geologist of Indiana, 1885- 89, and has been a member of the Indiana state legislature. His work in fiction includes, A Tallahassee Girl; His Second Campaign; At Love's Extremes; A Fortnight of Folly; The Ocala Boy; and King of Honey Island. Other works are, Hoosier Mosaics, a volume of sketches; The Witchery of Archery; Songs of Fair Weather; Byways and Bird Notes; Sylvan Secrets; The Story of Louisiana; Poems (1892); and Lincoln's Grave, a Poem.
Thompson, Merriwether Jeff
soldier, civil engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 22, 1826, in Harper's Ferry, Va. He was appointed brigadier-general in the Missouri state guards early in 1861, and in the confederate army in October of that year. He was the inventor of a hempbreak, which is now in general use, and an improved pistol-lock. He died in July, 1876, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Thompson, Mortimer
lecturer, author, was born in 1830. He was the author of Doesticks; What He Says; Plu- Ri-Bus-Tah, a travesty of Hiawatha; The Witches of New York; Nothing to Say; and History and Records of the Elephant Club. He died in 1875.
Thompson, Mother
founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, was the daughter of Governor Trimble of Ohio. She attended the first national temperance convention, which was held in the Independence hall in 1883. On her return home to Hillsboro, Ohio, she organized a small society of women and started a crusade against the saloons in the town. Her work soon spread over the country, and the movement became popular, and has since developed into the Woman's Christian Temperance union.
Thompson, Philip
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1823 to 1825.
Thompson, Philip B
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1845, in Harrodsburg, Ky. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortysixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.
Thompson, Philip R
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1801 to 1807. He died July 22, 1837, in Virginia.
Thompson, Ralph S
journalist, author, lecturer, was born Dec. 19, 1847, in Albion, Ill. He is the editor and owner of The New Era, the organ of the national party. He is the author of Science in Farming, which has been used as a text-book in many agricultural colleges.
Thompson, Richard E
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1856, in Fillmore county, Minn. He is a noted lawyer of Preston, Minn.; was a member of the Minnesota state legislature in 1883 and 1885; and in 1894 was elected to the state senate for four years.
Thompson, Richard Wigginton
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 9, 1809, in Culpeper county, Va. He was elected to the Indiana legislature and was re-elected in 1835. In 1836 he was elected to the state senate, served two years, and was, for a time, president pro tem. of the senate, and acting lieutenant-governor. He was a presidential elector in 1840. In 1841 he was elected a representative in congress for the term ending in 1843, and in 1844 was again chosen a presidential elector.
He was again a representative in congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1849, when he declined a re-election. He was secretary of the navy, in the cabinet of President Hayes, from 1877 to 1881, and resigned to become vice-president of the Panama Canal company. He was the author of The Papacy and the Civil Power; Footprints of the Jesuits; and History of Protective Tariff Laws.
Thompson, Robert A
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.
Thompson, Robert Ellis
journalist, educator, author, was born in 1844 in Ireland. He is a political economist of Philadelphia. He was editor of The Penn Monthly, 1870-80; professor in the university of Pennsylvania, 1870-92; and president of the Central High school from 1894. He is the author of History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States; Elements of Political Economy; Social Science and National Economy; Hard Times and What to Learn from Them; Protection to Home Industry; and De Civitate Dei.
Thompson, Robert Harvey
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 25, 1847, in Copiah county, Miss. He served as a confederate soldier in the civil war. During 1876-80 he was state senator in the Mississippi legislature; code commissioner in 1891-92; and trustee of the university of Mississippi in 1890-96.
Thompson, Seymour Dwight
lawyer, author, was born in 18-. He is a lawyer of St. Louis, and the author of On the Liability of Stockholders in Corporations; Charging the Jury; The Law of Carriers of Passengers; The Law of Negligence in Relations not resting in Contract; and Liabilities of Directors.
Thompson, Smith
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 17, 1768, in Stanford, N. Y.
In 1801 he was district attorney in the middle district of New York; was judge of the supreme court of New York from 1802 to 1814; and was chief justice from 1814 to 1818. He was secretary of the navy from 1818 to 1823; and was an associate justice of the United States supreme court from 1823 until his death. He died Dec. 18, 1843, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Thompson, Thomas L
publisher, journalist, congressman, was born May 31, 1838, in Charleston, Va. He has been for thirty-two years a printer, editor, and publisher, and in 1860 he purchased the Sonoma Democrat in Santa Rosa, Cal. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Cincinnati in 1880, and was elected secretary of state in 1882. He was elected to the fiftieth congress.
Thompson, Thomas Oliver
journalist, was born in Woodstock, Ill. He moved to Chicago in 1871 and became connected with the Chicago Times, with which he was connected for eight years.
He resigned the editorial chair to become private secretary of the elder Carter H.
Harrison, which he filled during 1879-85.
He next served as a member of the Cook county board of education for three years, being president of that body during the last year of his term. He has written several works; Food Frauds; The Tariff; and Anarchy and Anarchist. He now edits and manages two trade papers.
Thompson, Thomas W
congressman, United States senator, was born March 15, 1766, in Boston, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1805 to 1807; was state treasurer in 1809, and was a United States senator from 1814 to 1817. He died Oct. 1, 1821, in Concord.
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Thompson, Waddy
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1798, in Pickensville, S. C. He served in the legislature of his native state, and was at one time solicitor for the western circuit of South Carolina. He was chosen a presidential elector; attained the military title of brigadier-general, and in 1842 was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Mexico, about which country he published an interesting work. He was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1841. He died Nov. 23, 1868, in Tallahassee, Fla.
Thompson, Wiley
congressman, was born in Amelia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1821 to 1833.
Thompson, William
soldier, congressman. He was elected a representative in congress from Iowa from 1847 to 1851. He served through the war of the rebellion, upwards of four years, as captain, major, and colonel in the first Iowa cavalry, and as brevet brigadier-general, had command of a brigade. He was subsequently appointed a captain of cavalry in the regular army.
Thompson, William G
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1830, in Butler county, Pa. In 1854 he was elected prosecuting attorney for two years; in 1856 was elected a state senator for four years. He entered the union army in 1862 as a major, and served until 1864. He was a presidential elector in 1864, and was elected district attorney for the eighth judicial district of Iowa, and served seven years. He was appointed chief justice of the territory of Idaho in January, 1879. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Thompson, William Jackson
railroad president, was born Sept. 27, 1835, in Rappahannock county, Va. Since 1892 he has been president of the White and Black River Valley railway at Little Rock, Ark.
Thompson, William Oxley
clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 5, 1855, in Cambridge, Ohio. This eminent presbyterian clergyman has been president of the Miami university of Oxford, Ohio, since 1891.
Thompson, William P
manufacturer, financier, was born Jan. 7, 1837, in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1882 he became secretary, and in 1884 succeeded Oliver H.
Payne as vice-president of the Standard Oil company, having general charge of the affairs of the company throughout the states west of Buffalo. The growing business of the corporation compelled his removal to New York city in 1887, and when the Standard Oil Trust was formed by a union of a number of separate companies, he became chairman of the domestic committee, having charge of its internal affairs.
Thompson, William Tappan
author, was born Aug. 31, 1812, in Ravenna, Ohio. He was a prominent journalist of Savannah, the rough, extravagant humor of whose studies of Georgia life was once popular. He was the author of Major Jones's Courtship; Major Jones's Sketches of Travel; Major Jones's Characters of Pineville; The Live Indian, a Farce; and John's Alive. He died March 24, 1882, in Savannah, Ga.