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Thompson, John

political writer, was born in 1777. He was the author of articles signed Casca and Gracchus in the Petersburg Gazette, in which he attacked John Adams's administration, and also of letters signed Curtius, addressed to Chief-Justice John Marshall in 1798, which were issued in book-form. He died in 1799, in Petersburg, Va.

Thompson, John

lawyer, congressman, was born July 4, 1809, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was elected a representative in congress from New York to the thirty.. fifth congress.

Thompson, John Burton

congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 14, 1810, in Harrodsburg, Ky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1840 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1851. In 1853 he was elected a senator in congress for the long term.

He died Jan. 7, 1874, in Harrodsburg, Ky.

Thompson, John Gilbert

educator, was born June 23, 1862, in New Bedford, Mass. In 1886 he graduated from Dartmouth college, and has since attained eminence as a successful educator. He has been superintendent of schools, and is now principal of the State Normal school of Fitchburg, Mass.

Thompson, John M

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1829, in Butler county, Pa. He served two terms as a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, the last term as speaker. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortythird congress to fill a vacancy, and was elected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Thompson, John Reuben

lawyer, journalist, author, was born Oct. 23, 1823, in Richmond, Va. He was a journalist and lawyer of Richmond, Va., editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in 1847- 59, and very popular in the south as a lyrist. He died April 30, 1873, in New York city.

Thompson, Jonathan

merchant, banker, was born Dec. 7, 1773, in Sagtikos Manor, L. I. He was collector of direct taxes and internal revenue for the state of New York during the war of 1812-15, and afterward, when that office was abolished, was appointed collector of customs of the port of New York, and served from 1820 to 1829. He died Dec. 30, 1846, in New York city.

Thompson, Launt

sculptor, was born Feb. 8, 1833, in Ireland. He worked in Palmer's studio for nine years, producing several portrait-busts and ideal heads of some merit, and in 1858 removed to New York. His works are portrait-busts of William C. Bryant, in the Metropolitan museum, New York; James Gordon Bennett, the elder; Robert B. Minturn; Capt. Charles H. Marshall; Edwin Booth as Hamlet; Stephen H. Tyng; and Charles L.

Elliott and Samuel F. B. Morse.

Thompson, Lewis C

clergyman, was born Sept. 13, 1857, in Nelson, Ohio.

He has attained prominence as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Hyattville, Wyo.

Thompson, Lewis O

clergyman, author, was born March 13, 1839, in Norway. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Peoria, Ill., and the author of The Presidents and their Administrations; Nothing Lost; How to Conduct Prayer Meetings; The Prayer Meeting and its Improvement; and Nineteen Christian Centuries in Outline.

He died July 16, 1887, in Henry, Ill.

Thompson, Mark

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1795 to 1799.

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.