John Thomson (November 20, 1780December 2, 1852) was a United States Representative from Ohio. Born in the

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, Thomson immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1787. He completed preparatory studies. He studied medicine, and in 1806, he moved to

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, and practiced. He served in the

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in 1814, 1815, and 1817–1820 and in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1816. Thomson was elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the

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Congress. Thomson was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1837). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1836. He resumed the practice of medicine. He died in New Lisbon (now Lisbon),

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, December 2, 1852. He was interred in New Lisbon Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomson, John 1780 births 1852 deaths Members of the Ohio House of Representatives Ohio state senators People from Lisbon, Ohio Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Physicians from Ohio Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 19th-century American politicians