Benjamin Thompson (politician)

Benjamin Thompson (* August 5, 1798 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, † September 24, 1852 ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1852 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Thompson attended the common schools and worked in the trade. In the 1830s he began a political career. Between 1830 and 1831, and again from 1833 to 1836 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1841 he was a member of the State Senate. Politically, he was a member of the mid-1830s, founded the Whig Party.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Thompson was the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Parmenter on March 3, 1845. Since he resigned in 1846 to run again, he could prefer to take only one term in Congress until March 3, 1847. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War.

In 1850, Thompson was re-elected in the fourth district of his state in Congress, where he could exercise his mandate between 4 March 1851 to his death on 24 September 1852. This period was dominated by discussions about slavery.