Philip Thompson (politician)

Philip Thompson (born August 20, 1789 in Harrodsburg , Mercer County , Kentucky , †  November 25, 1836 in Owensboro , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Philip Thompson received limited schooling. During the British-American War of 1812 he was a lieutenant in the US Army . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Hartford in this profession. He later moved his residence and practice to Owensboro.

Politically, Thompson was a member of the Democratic Republican Party , for which he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . In the 1820s he joined the faction led by President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay . In the congressional elections of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the then newly created eleventh constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. By March 3, 1825, he completed a term in Congress . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thompson practiced law again until his death in November 1836.

Web links

• Philip Thompson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Philip Thompson in the database of Find a Grave (English)