John McCandless Thompson
John McCandless Thompson (* January 4, 1829 in Butler, Pennsylvania, † September 3, 1903 ) was an American politician. Between 1874 and 1879 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Thompson was the older brother of Congressman William George Thompson (1830-1911) from Iowa. He attended the common schools and then the Witherspoon Institute. After a subsequent law degree in 1854 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Butler to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1859 and 1860 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; for one year he was its president. During the Civil War, Thompson served until 1863 as Major and later as a lieutenant colonel in the army of the Union. In May 1868, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Ulysses S. Grant as a presidential candidate.
Following the resignation of Mr Ebenezer McJunkin Thompson was at the due election for the 23 seats of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 22 December 1874. By March 3, 1875 Thompson could end the current parliamentary term in Congress.
In the congressional elections of 1876 Thompson was elected to Congress again in the 26th electoral district of his state, where he replaced James Sheakley on March 4, 1877. Since he did not compete in 1878 for re-election, he was able to spend up to March 3, 1879 just another term. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on September 3, 1903 in Butler, where he was also buried.