He also served from 1783 to September 1785 and was married in 1786 to Ann Thompson, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, 21 years his junior.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

Following the American Civil War, Thompson served as judge of the 18th Circuit Court of the state of Indiana from 1867 to 1869.

* USS Thompson ( DD-305 ), named for Richard Wigginton Thompson and served in the 1920s

* USS Thompson ( DD-627 ), named for Robert Means Thompson and served during World War II and the Korean War

Craig Thompson has served as Commissioner of the MW since its founding in 1999.

* Francis C. Thompson served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1975 until 2008 and now in the Louisiana State Senate.

* Author Hunter S Thompson served here in the 1950s.

* John F. Thompson, ( 1920 – 1965 ) Massachusetts state representative, served as Massachusetts Speaker of the House

Pearl is served by Jackson-Evers International Airport, located at Allen C. Thompson Field, at the Pearl city limits in the city of Flowood in Rankin County.

* John Thompson Dorrance 91873-1930 ), chemist who created condensed soup and served as president of the Campbell Soup Company from 1914 to 1930.

The city is served by Thompson Public School.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson, who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum issues, was born in Alvord in 1892.

That portion is served by Thompson Elementary School, Berry Middle School, and John Horn High School ( all three schools are in Mesquite ).

John Louis then served as the slave, non-combatant, personal-body-servant to his older nephew John Claiborne Thompson ( April 3, 1828-February 2, 1872 ), the son of his deceased half-sister Elizabeth Little Brown ( February 2, 1792-December 10, 1854 ), during John Claiborne Thompson's 12 months of service from May 1861 to May 1862 in the American Civil War, as evidenced by John Louis's application for a pension late in life.

Sarah Emma Edmonds served in the 2nd Michigan Infantry as a disguised man named Franklin Thompson from May 1861 until April 1863.

Prior to joining Fairchild, Dr. Thompson served as CEO of Big Bear Networks.

Thompson was convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and served 3 years in prison as his sentence starting in 1983.

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

Thompson announced his resignation from HHS on December 3, 2004, and served until January 26, 2005, when the Senate confirmed his successor, Michael O. Leavitt.

Shortly after leaving his Bush Cabinet post, Thompson joined and served for two years on the board of directors of Applied Digital Solutions, makers of the controversial VeriChip: a glass-encapsulated RFID chip that can be injected into human flesh for various database-driven identification purposes.

Many Chicago-based governors also have done much of their business out of the governor's office in Chicago's James R. Thompson Center, an office building owned by the state named for the governor who served through the 1980s.

After taking the lighter and attempting to light his own fart but falling short of the other boys ' efforts, Alan ( Michael Gibney ) threatens Eddie ( Miles Thompson ), Mark ( Tommy John Riccardo ), Billy ( Dino Roscigno ) and Pee Pee ( Paul Iacono ), but is soon stopped by camp counselor, Randy ( Brye Cooper ), who is irritated with him.

James H. Dormon, a University of Southwestern Louisiana professor of history and American studies, in a 1978 anthology, " Readings in Louisiana History "; wrote an article concerning the revolt of 1811 as did the late Thomas Marshall Thompson in the winter 1992 edition of Louisiana Quarterly.

Thompson of Doyline was a former president of the Webster Parish School Board who was elected without opposition to succeed James Bolin in the Louisiana House from 1944 until his death in office in 1951.

Chennault was twice married and had a total of ten children, eight by his first wife, the former Nell Thompson ( 1893 – 1977 ), an American of British ancestry, whom he met at a high school graduation ceremony and subsequently wed in Winnsboro, Louisiana on December 24, 1911.

* John Thompson ( Louisiana ) ( died 1810 ), registrar of lands and judge

In areas more distant from the main theaters of operations, Confederate forces in Alabama and Mississippi under Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, in Arkansas under Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson, in Louisiana and Texas under General E. Kirby Smith and in Indian Territory under Brigadier General Stand Watie surrendered on May 4, 1865, May 12, 1865, May 26, 1865 ( officially June 2, 1865 ) and June 28, 1865, respectively.

Long named two widows, Lizzie P. Thompson of Doyline and Mary Smith Gleason of the Evergreen Community near Shongaloo, to fill the Webster Parish seat in the Louisiana House after their husbands, C. W.

In 2011, Thompson was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Some strictly local performances have been done in the Shreveport area under the name including a 2003 Louisiana Hayride cast reunion called One More ' Ride that featured 60 acts from the original show including Kitty Wells, the Browns, Betty Amos, Homer Bailes, Billy Walker, Mitchell Torok, Hank Thompson and many more.

Treen worked with the Lafayette delegation, including Representatives Mike Thompson and Ron Gomez, for construction of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin ' Cajuns stadium, the Cajundome.

Thompson was living in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Colburn near Atlanta, Georgia, and they quickly arranged a reunion.

At the age of 62, after extensive treatment for cancer, Thompson was removed from life support and died on January 6, 2006, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Pineville, Louisiana.

Thompson was buried in Lafayette, Louisiana, with full military honors, including a three-volley salute and a helicopter flyover.

He ran the National States ' Rights Party, which attracted such fringe political figures as A. Roswell Thompson, a perennial Democratic candidate for governor of Louisiana and mayor of New Orleans.

* late 1970s – Michael F. " Mike " Thompson, while serving in the Louisiana House

The historian William Y. Thompson taught at Presbyterian College from 1950 – 1955, when he joined the faculty of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.

The Cathedral is headed by its current Dean and Rector, the Very Reverend David Allard duPlantier and is the seat of the eleventh Bishop of Louisiana, the Right Reverend Morris K. Thompson, Jr.

* James Westfall Thompson, History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860 ( Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1942 ).

The Florida Department of Citrus states " the primary varieties of Florida grapefruit are Ruby Red, Pink, Thompson, Marsh and Duncan.

Until 1972, when the Washington State Department of Transportation re-routed Highway 20 ( then known as Star Route 20 ) outside the town, the Thompson Bridge was the only connecting thoroughfare across the Baker River and into eastern Skagit County.

The explorer-geographer David Thompson ( 1770-1857 ), working as head of the North West Company's Columbia Department, became the first European to explore the Inland Northwest.

827 by William C. Thompson, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine, California ".

* Independent Counsels Arlin Adams and Larry Thompson relating to Samuel Pierce and others associated with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1988 – 98

After the war Thompson was appointed chief of the Small Arms Division for the Ordnance Department.

Realizing that he could sell more space if the company provided the service of developing content for advertisers, Thompson hired writers and artists to form the first known Creative Department in an advertising agency.

During those years, Thompson taught architecture at Harvard University, and served as Department Chairman 1964-1968.

Mr. Thompson served as Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation from 1995 to 1998, completing the investigation and prosecution started by Judge Arlin M. Adams in 1990.

In January 2003 Thompson issued an internal Justice Department document informally titled the Thompson Memorandum written to help federal prosecutors decide whether to charge a corporation, rather than or in addition to individuals within the corporation, with criminal offenses.

In August 2003 Thompson left the Justice Department and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution for a year before accepting the position of senior vice-president for government affairs and general counsel at Pepsico in Purchase, New York.

Thompson, if selected, would have been the first African-American ever to head the Justice Department.

He announced in January 2009 that he would not run for re-election in the next federal election However, on April 28, 2009, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald announced that Casey would be the senior representative for the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs in Ottawa for the province, replacing Ian Thompson.

He then entered the private sector becoming deputy chairman of the advertising agency J Walter Thompson Ltd. During World War II, he worked in the Foreign Office, the Department of Overseas Trade ( as director of post-war planning ) and the Ministry of Production.

Thompson gave his first lecture to a U. S. Army audience, discussing physical and moral courage, at the U. S. Army Medical Department Center and School, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, in 1998.

Thompson then served as superintendent of the Hawkinsville public school system until he accepted the position of state school supervisor in the Georgia Department of Education.

As Banking Commissioner, Thompson is responsible for overseeing the State Banking Department, chairing the State Banking Board, and regulating the financial services industry in Oklahoma.

As the Head of Goldsmiths Department of Art in the 1980s, Thompson opened up specialisms and allowed students to move freely between the different modes of practice, such as painting, sculpture, photography and printing, etc.

From 29 August 1977 to 1 November 1981, Thompson, then a Major General, served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence at the Department of the Army headquarters.

Keith Thompson is a professor at Dalhousie University with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Thompson was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of W. R. Thompson, a geneticist and the head of the Department of Psychology at Queen's University, and Mary, who taught in the Queens Drama Department for many years.