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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | William Thompson |
| Address |
Mount Pleasant, Iowa , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
November 10, 1813
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| Died | October 06, 1897
(83 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
May 18, 2023 01:29am |
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| Info | THOMPSON, William, a Representative from Iowa; born in Fayette County, Pa., November 10, 1813; attended the common schools; moved to Iowa and settled in Mount Pleasant; member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1843; secretary of the State constitutional convention in 1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1849, to June 29, 1850, when the seat was declared vacant; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Thirty-first Congress); served in the Union Army during the Civil War; commissioned captain in the First Iowa Volunteer Cavalry on July 31, 1861; promoted to major on May 18, 1863, and colonel on June 20, 1864; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers on March 13, 1865, recommissioned captain in the Seventh Cavalry, Regular Army, on July 28, 1866, and retired from the Army on December 15, 1875; editor of the Iowa State Gazette; died in Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., on October 6, 1897; interment in Tacoma Cemetery.
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