Patrick Watson Tompkins (1804May 8, 1853) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a
U.S. Representative
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from
Mississippi
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from 1847 to 1849.
Biography
Born in Kentucky in 1804, Tompkins received a limited education. He studied law, and was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat, and the population at the 2010 census was 23,856.
Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vic ...
. He served as judge of the
circuit court.
Congress
Tompkins was elected as a
Whig to the
Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Thirtieth Congress).
Later career and death
He moved to California during the gold rush of 1849, and died in
San Francisco, California
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, May 8, 1853. He was interred in Yerba Buena Cemetery, and later moved around 1870 to
Golden Gate Cemetery.
References
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1853 deaths
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
1804 births
Mississippi Whigs
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives
19th-century American politicians
Mississippi state court judges
19th-century American judges