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Joseph Bryan Thompson (April 29, 1871 – September 18, 1919) was an American politician and a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from Oklahoma.


Biography

Born near
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, Thompson attended the public schools, and was graduated from Savoy College in
Fannin County, Texas Fannin County is a county in the far northeast of the U.S. state of Texas, on the border with Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 35,662. The county seat is Bonham. The county was named for James Fannin, who commanded the grou ...
, in 1890. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in
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,
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. He moved to Ardmore, Indian Territory. Thompson married Mary Miller, and they raised two sons, James Miller Thompson and Joseph B. Thompson, Jr.


Career

Appointed commissioner for the United States court in 1893, Thompson returned to Purcell, Indian Territory. He resigned in 1897 and moved to
Pauls Valley Pauls Valley is a city in and the county seat of Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,992 at the 2020 census, a decline of 3.2 percent from the figure of 6,187 in 2010. It was settled by and named for Smith Paul, a North ...
and resumed the
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. He served as delegate to the
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in 1900, 1904, and 1908, and as member of the Democratic Territorial committee from 1896 to 1904. He was chairman of the Democratic State committee in 1906 and 1908, and served in the State senate from 1910 to 1914. Thompson was elected as a
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to the 63rd Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death.


Death

On September 18, 1919, Thompson died of heart failure induced by Bright's disease while on a train near
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en route to his home at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. He is
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at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.


See also

* List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)


References


External links

*
Oklahoma Historical Society


Joseph B. Thompson, late a representative from Oklahoma, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1921
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