Edwin Keith Thomson

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Edwin Keith Thomson (1959)

Edwin Keith Thomson (born February 8, 1919 in New Castle , Wyoming , † December 9, 1960 in Cody , Wyoming) was an American politician . Between 1955 and 1960 he represented the state of Wyoming in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Edwin Thomson attended the public schools in Beulah and in Spearfish ( South Dakota ). He then studied until 1941 at the law school of the University of Wyoming law. During the Second World War he was a lieutenant colonel in an infantry unit in the US Army . After the war, Thomson was a lawyer in Cheyenne .

Political career

Edwin Thomson became a member of the Republican Party , whose Republican National Convention he attended in 1952 as a delegate. At this convention General Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1952 to 1954 Thomson was an MP in the Wyoming House of Representatives . In the congressional elections of 1954, he was elected to succeed William Henry Harrison in the US House of Representatives. Two years later he was confirmed in this mandate by the voters of Wyoming. In 1960, he did not apply for a third term. Instead, he successfully ran for a seat in the US Senate . His term of office as a member of parliament would have run until January 3, 1961. On the same day he should have taken up his new mandate in the Senate. But none of this happened again because Edwin Thomson died on December 9, 1960. Thomson was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

His wife Thyra Thomson (1916-2013) served from 1963 to 1987 as Secretary of State of Wyoming.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wyoming News: Longtime secretary of state Thomson dies at 96
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Edwin Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New Castle , Wyoming
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1960
Place of death Cody , Wyoming