Joseph Bryan Thompson

Joseph Bryan Thompson

Joseph Bryan Thompson (born April 29, 1871 in Sherman , Texas , † September 18, 1919 in Martinsburg , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the seventh and from 1915 to 1919 the fifth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Thompson attended the public schools in his home country and then through 1890 Savoy College in Fannin County , Texas. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1892, he began to work in Purcell in the Indian area of ​​the Oklahoma Territory in his new profession. He later moved to Ardmore within the Territory . Between 1893 and 1897 he was commissioner for the United States Court in the area. He then moved to Pauls Valley where he worked as a lawyer.

Thompson was a member of the Democratic Party , whose Democratic National Conventions he attended in 1900, 1904 and 1908 as a delegate. From 1896 to 1904 he was on the party executive in the Oklahoma Territory and from 1906 to 1908 he was party chairman in the state of Oklahoma. Between 1910 and 1913 he was a member of the Oklahoma Senate . In 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the newly created seventh constituency of Oklahoma. He represented this district between March 4, 1913 and March 3, 1915 in Congress . In the following elections he ran for the fifth constituency, which he represented from March 4, 1915 as the successor of Scott Ferris until his death on September 18, 1919 in Congress. Joseph Thomsson died while traveling home by train near Martinsburg.

Web links

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

• Joseph Bryan Thompson in the database of Find a Grave (English)