Charles Perkins Thompson

Charles Perkins Thompson

Charles Perkins Thompson (born July 30, 1827 in Braintree , Massachusetts , †  January 19, 1894 in Gloucester , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Thompson attended public schools in his home country and then Amherst College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1854, he began to work in Gloucester in this profession from 1857. He was previously the deputy federal prosecutor from 1855 to 1857 . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1871 and 1872 . In July 1872 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , on which Horace Greeley was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional election of 1874 Thompson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Benjamin Franklin Butler on March 4, 1875 . Since he was not confirmed in 1876, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1877 . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Thompson practiced law again. Between 1874 and 1879, with the exception of 1876, he was the legal representative of the city of Gloucester. In 1880 and 1881 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Massachusetts. From 1885 Thompson was a judge in the Superior Court of his state. He died in Gloucester on January 19, 1894.

Web links

• Charles Perkins Thompson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Perkins Thompson in the database of Find a Grave (English)