George Lincoln Thompson (November 22, 1864 – September 1, 1941) was an American politician from
New York
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Life
He was the son of Richmond Ansel Thompson and Annie Elizabeth (Handshaw) Thompson. On June 12, 1894, he married Lottie F. Scott.
Thompson was a member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
(Suffolk Co., 2nd D.) in
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
,
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
and
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
; and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Institutions in 1912.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Partisan com ...
(1st D.) from 1915 until his death in 1941, sitting in the
138th,
139th,
140th,
141st,
142nd,
143rd,
144th,
145th,
146th,
147th,
148th,
149th,
150th,
151st,
152nd,
153rd,
154th,
155th,
156th,
157th,
158th,
159th,
160th,
161st,
162nd and
163rd New York State Legislature
The 163rd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 8, 1941, to April 24, 1942, during the ninth and tenth years of Herbert H. Lehman's governorship, in Albany.
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s.
He died on September 1, 1941, at his home in
Kings Park, New York, of a
heart attack; and was buried at the Episcopal Church Graveyard in
St. James, New York
St. James is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 13,487 at the 2020 census. St. James is part of the Town of Smithtown and is located on the North Shore of Long ...
.
Sources
''Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes''by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 358f)
in NYT on September 2, 1941 (subscription required)
at Long Island genealogy
External links
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1864 births
1941 deaths
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
People from Smithtown, New York
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Kings Park, New York