Joseph Bryan Thompson

Joseph Bryan Thompson ( born April 29, 1871 Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, † September 18, 1919 in Martinsburg, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the seventh and 1915-1919 the fifth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Thompson attended the public schools of his home and then to 1890 the Savoy College in Fannin County, Texas. After a subsequent law degree in 1892 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession in Purcell in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma Territory. He later moved within the territory to Ardmore. Between 1893 and 1897 he was court attorney of the Federal Court ( Commissioner for the United States Court ) in this area. He then moved to Pauls Valley where he worked as a lawyer.

Thompson was a member of the Democratic Party, the Democratic National Convention he attended in the years 1900, 1904 and 1908 as a delegate. From 1896 to 1904 he was the party executive in the Oklahoma Territory, and from 1906 to 1908 he was chairman of the party in the state of Oklahoma. Between 1910 and 1913 he was a member of the Senate of Oklahoma. In 1912 he was elected in the newly seventh electoral district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives. This district he represented between 4 March 1913 and 3 March 1915 at the Congress. In the following elections he ran for the fifth constituency, which he represented since March 4, 1915 as the successor to Scott Ferris until his death on 18 September 1919 at the Congress. Joseph Thomsson died during the trip home by train near Martinsburg.