Waddy Thompson, Jr.

Waddy Thompson, Jr. ( born January 8, 1798 in Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, † November 23, 1868 in Tallahassee, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1841 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood came Waddy Thompson with his parents to Greenville. There he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1814 at the South Carolina College in Columbia, from the University of South Carolina emerged. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1819 admitted to the bar he began in Edgefield to work in his new profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to Greenville.

Since the 1820s, Thompson was also politically active. He joined the movement to President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, from 1835, the Whig Party was created, whose member was Thompson. Between 1816 and 1829 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1830 he was prosecutor in the western area of his home state. Thompson was also active in the state militia. In 1832 he was appointed there to brigadier general.

1835 Thompson was at a by-election in the ninth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on September 10, 1835 at its new mandate. After he was confirmed in the two following regular congressional elections each in his mandate, he could remain until March 3, 1841 in Congress. Between 1839 and 1841 he was there Chairman of the Military Committee. In 1840, Thompson opted not to run again. Between 1842 and 1844 he was the United States Ambassador in Mexico, which, given the increasing tensions was not an easy task at that time because of the question about the future of independent since 1836 by Mexico Republic of Texas.

After his time in the diplomatic service Thompson moved to Madison in Florida. There he dealt with the cultivation of cotton. In 1868 he was district attorney for a short time. He died on November 23, 1868 during a visit to Tallahassee, the capital of Florida.