Edwin Keith Thomson

Edwin Keith Thomson ( born February 8, 1919 in New Castle, Wyoming, † December 9, 1960 in Cody, Wyoming ) was an American politician. Between 1955 and 1960 he represented the state of Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Edwin Thomson attended the public schools in Beulah and in Spearfish (South Dakota). Then he studied until 1941 at the Law Faculty of the University of Wyoming law. During World War I, he was lieutenant-colonel of an infantry unit of the U.S. Army. After the war was Thomson lawyer in Cheyenne.

Political career

Edwin Thomson was a member of the Republican Party, the Republican National Convention in 1952, he attended as a delegate. At this congress General Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1952 to 1954, Thomson MP in the House of Representatives from Wyoming. In the congressional elections of 1954, he was elected as the successor to William Harrison into the U.S. House of Representatives. Two years later he was confirmed in this mandate by the voters of Wyoming. In 1960 he not applied for a third term. Instead, he successfully ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. His term as an MP would have extended to January 3, 1961. On the same day he was supposed to take up his new seat in the Senate. But to all this, there was no more, because Edwin Thomson died on 9 December 1960. Thomson was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.