Albert C. Thompson

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Albert C. Thompson

Albert Clifton Thompson (born January 23, 1842 in Brookville , Jefferson County , Pennsylvania , †  January 26, 1910 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1885 and 1891 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

Albert Thompson attended public schools in his home country and then Jefferson College in Canonsburg . During the Civil War , he served in a Pennsylvania infantry unit that was part of the Union Army from 1861 to 1863 . He rose to the rank of captain. After being wounded, he had to quit military service on March 23, 1863. After studying law, which had already begun before the war, and was admitted to the bar in 1864, he began to work in this profession from 1865 in Portsmouth (Ohio). In October 1869 he became a probate judge in Scioto County ; in October 1881 he was elected appellate judge in the Seventh District of Ohio.

Politically, Thompson was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1884 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Alphonso Hart on March 4, 1885 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1891 . Since 1887 he represented there as the successor to William W. Ellsberry the eleventh district of his state. In 1890 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Thompson practiced law again. In 1897 he was appointed by President William McKinley to revise the criminal law of the United States. From 1898 until his death he was a judge in the federal district court for the southern part of the state of Ohio. He died in Cincinnati on January 26, 1910 and was buried in Portsmouth.

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SURNAME Thompson, Albert C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Albert Clifton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookville , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1910
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio