Larry Thompson

Larry Dean Thompson (* November 15, 1945 in Hannibal, Missouri) is an American lawyer and business manager, the Assistant U.S. Attorney General was and is since 2004 Vice President of PepsiCo.

Life

After schooling Thompson studied first at Culver- Stockton College, where in 1967 he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and at Michigan State University, which he left with a Master of Arts in 1969. A subsequent study of law at the University of Michigan, he graduated in 1974 with a Juris Doctor from. After graduating, he went into private business and was initially 1974-1977 Legal Adviser of the agricultural and biotechnology company Monsanto, before he worked 1977-1982 as a lawyer at King & Spalding, a law firm with today 200 lawyers and is based in Atlanta.

Subsequently, he was from 1982 to 1986 United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, before he returned from 1986 to 2001 as a partner in the law firm King & Spalding. During his legal practice, he was also a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts.

2001 Thompson, who belongs to the Republicans, as U.S. Deputy Attorney General Deputy Attorney General of the administration of President George W. Bush and held that post until 2003. In this capacity he approved in March 2002 the controversial deportation of Canadian citizen of Syrian origin, Maher Arar, to Syria for alleged terrorism charges.

After his retirement from government service, he returned to the private sector and between 2003 and 2005 was not only a member of the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, but from 2003 to 2004 and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Since 2004, Thompson 's senior vice president and chief legal counsel of PepsiCo and was at times also a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Providian Financial Corporation. In 2006, he was among the candidates to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States; later he was traded as a possible Attorney General in the case of a victory by John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.