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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.