Fletcher Thompson

Fletcher Thompson (1969)

Standish Fletcher Thompson (born February 5, 1925 in College Park , Georgia ) is a former American politician . Between 1967 and 1973 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Fletcher Thompson attended his homeland public schools including Russell High School at East Point . During the Second World War he was in the US Army medical service in 1943 . He then served in the Army Fliegerstaffel between 1944 and 1946. During the Korean War , he was an Air Force pilot from 1950 to 1953 . Until 1949 Thompson studied at Emory University . After studying law at Woodrow Wilson College of Law and being admitted to the bar in 1958, he began working in his new profession in East Point. He also ran an insurance company.

Thompson joined the Republican Party . In 1964 he was elected to the Georgia Senate. In the 1966 congressional election , Thompson prevailed in the fifth constituency of Georgia, whereupon he succeeded Charles Weltner in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on January 3, 1967 . Since 1875 he was the first Republican to represent this district in Congress . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms there until January 3, 1973. These were determined by the events of the Vietnam War , which was coming to an end . In 1972 Thompson declined to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for election to the US Senate ; he lost to the Democrat Sam Nunn .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Fletcher Thompson worked as a lawyer in Atlanta . He also ran a trucking company. Since 1985 he has been a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission . Today he lives very old in Marietta .

Web links

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