Thompson Maxwell Scoon (August 29, 1888 – July 27, 1953) was an American farmer and politician from
New York
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Life
He was born on August 29, 1888, in
Geneva,
Ontario County, New York. He graduated from
Cornell University. He was President of the Geneva Preserving Company and a director of the Geneva Trust Company. Later he engaged in farming in
Seneca. He married Elizabeth Bacon, and their only child was Thompson M. Scoon Jr. (1924–2003).
Scoon was for eight years Chairman of the Ontario County Civil Service Commission; and a member of the
New York State Assembly
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(Ontario Co.) from 1951 until his death in 1953, sitting in the
168th and
169th New York State Legislature
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He died on July 27, 1953,
''Manual for Use of the Legislature''
(1954; pg. 1317) in Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, New York.
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1888 births
1953 deaths
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Politicians from Geneva, New York
Cornell University alumni
20th-century American legislators