Philip Thompson (Kentucky)

Philip Thompson (* August 20, 1789 in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, † November 25, 1836 in Owensboro, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Philip Thompson received a limited schooling. During the British - American War of 1812 he was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Hartford in this profession. Later he transferred his residence and his practice to Owensboro.

Politically, Thompson member of the Democratic-Republican Party to which he belonged to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the 1820s he joined the faction of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was in the then newly eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. Until March 3, 1825, he completed a term in Congress. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Thompson practiced until his death in November 1836 again as a lawyer.