* 1941 – Tommy Thompson, 42nd U. S. Governor of Wisconsin and 19th Secretary of Health and Human Services

His older brother, Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was formerly Governor of Wisconsin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Thompson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCallum, former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Governor Tommy Thompson left to become U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Tommy George Thompson ( born November 19, 1941 ) is a United States Republican politician who was the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001 and U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005.

Schreyer sometimes favoured policies distinct from those of the federal New Democratic Party ; in 1970, he supported Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's direction of the Governor General to invoke the War Measures Act in response to the October Crisis in Quebec, despite the opposition of federal NDP leader Tommy Douglas.

White declined to seek the Republican nomination for Governor again in 1990, opting to support Sheffield Nelson in his primary race against Representative Tommy Robinson instead of running himself.

Doyle ran against Republican Scott McCallum, the former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office of Governor in 2001 after Tommy Thompson left to become Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration.

Prior to assuming the role of governor upon the appointment of Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, McCallum served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.

It won two seats ( Paias Wingti Western Highlands Regional seat to become Governor of the province and Tommy Tomscholl-Middle Ramu was the new Agricutlure and Life Stock Minister.

Working with state governors such as Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Michigan Governor John Engler, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and Delaware Governor Tom Carper, Shaw began crafting legislation that shifted the federal focus of social welfare to an emphasis on personal responsibility.

Allegations of bribery to push the favorable bills through the government spread to House Speaker Gus Mutscher, Jr., State Representative Tommy Shannon, state Democratic chairman, state banking board member Elmer Baum, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes and even Governor Preston Smith.

The record is approached, but not matched, by the nearly-15-year tenure of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York ( January 1959-December 1973 ) as well as the 14-year tenures attained by Branstad's first gubernatorial predecessor, Robert D. Ray of Iowa ( 1969 – 83 ); Governor James R. Thompson of Illinois ( 1977 – 91 ); and Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin ( 1987 – 2001 ).

The candidates present included Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Representative Duncan Hunter of California, Senator John McCain of Arizona, Representative Ron Paul of Texas, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, and Tommy Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin and President George W. Bush ’ s first Secretary of Health and Human Services.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800 ), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and ( Mangle ) Minthorne Tompkins ( December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881 ), who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852.

In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher appointed Republican Randy Thompson as County Judge Executive-the county's first Republican Judge Executive.

* Jill Long Thompson, 2008 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Indiana

* Jill Long Thompson, former U. S. Representative, former candidate for Governor of Indiana

* Governor Thompson's brother Ed Thompson ran unsuccessfully for Wisconsin governor on the Libertarian ticket in 2002.

The newest park in the Wisconsin state park system, Governor Thompson State Park, is being developed north of Crivitz.

Just up the road from Governor Thompson State Park is the Calderan Falls Bar & Grill, which hosts the annual Hog Wrestling World Championships, over 200 four-man teams compete, and more than 10, 000 spectators enjoy the event.

Elected as Lieutenant Governor with Thompson in 1882, was John C. Sheppard.

His brother, Ed Thompson is a former Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin, and was the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002.

Thompson served as the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, having been elected to an unprecedented four terms.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

Governor Wentworth contributed an ox for a barbecue on the green beneath the three-hundred-foot pines, and a barrel of rum was broached.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

He was getting the feel of the room for a concert tomorrow night for Puerto Rico Governor Luis Munoz Marin.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

Gawler was recalled and replaced by Governor Grey in 1841.

Praetor Anicius Probus first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consular prefect or " Governor " of Liguria and Emilia, with headquarters at Milan, which was then ( beside Rome ) the second capital in Italy.

Ambrose was the Governor of Aemilia-Liguria in northern Italy until 374 when he became the Bishop of Milan.

He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

His final biennial speech as Governor was pivotal, and he used it to recapitulate his populist philosophy of government.

General Loganathan, of the Indian National Army, was Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had been annexed to the Provisional Government.

Selkirk was discovered by the Dukes captain, Woodes Rogers, who referred to him as Governor of the island.

He was nicknamed the " Austrian Oak " and the " Styrian Oak " in his bodybuilding days, " Arnie " during his acting career and more recently " The Governator " ( a portmanteau of " Governor " and " The Terminator "-one of his most well-known movie roles ).< ref name =" IMDb bio ">

It was undisclosed at the time that New York State Governor John A.