- William George Thompson
William George Thompson (
January 17 ,1830 –April 2 ,1911 ) was a politician from theU.S. state ofIowa .Thompson was born and raised in
Butler, Pennsylvania , the brother ofJohn McCandless Thompson . In 1853, he was admitted to the bar and moved toMarion, Iowa . He became the prosecuting attorney forLinn County, Iowa in 1854, then left in 1856 to serve in theIowa Senate , serving until 1860. When the Civil War broke out he became aMajor in the Twentieth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was district attorney for Iowa's eighth judicial district for six years and wasChief Justice of theTerritory of Idaho , serving from January to April 1879.Thompson resigned as Chief Justice to be elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's fifth district in the Forty-sixth Congress, filling the vacancy caused by the death of
Rush Clark . He was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress in 1881, but chose not to run for the Forty-eighth. Instead, he served in the city council for Marion. Thompson also served in theIowa House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887 and was judge of Iowa's eighteenth judicial district from 1894 to 1906. He retired to Kenwood Park, Iowa where he diedApril 2 ,1911 . He is interred atOak Shade Cemetery in Marion.References
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district=5
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before=Rush Clark
after= James Wilson
years=December 1 ,1879 –March 3 ,1883
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