Charles Perkins Thompson

Charles Perkins Thompson ( born July 30, 1827 in Braintree, Massachusetts, † January 19, 1894 in Gloucester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Thompson attended the public schools of his home and then Amherst College. After a subsequent study of law and its 1854 made ​​admission to the bar he began in 1857 to work in Gloucester in this profession. Previously, he was from 1855 to 1857 Deputy Attorney General. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1871 and 1872 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In July 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore in part, on the Horace Greeley was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Thompson was the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin Franklin Butler on March 4, 1875. Since he has not been confirmed in 1876, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thompson practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1874 and 1879 he was with the exception of 1876 legal representative of the city of Gloucester. In the years 1880 and 1881, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Massachusetts. Since 1885, Thompson was the Superior Court judge his state. He died on 19 January 1894 in Gloucester.

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