Jesse Thompson (November 14, 1749 – June 23, 1834) was an American politician from

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Life

Thompson was born on November 14, 1749, in

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, Connecticut. He served as a lieutenant in the 4th Regiment,

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, in 1775. He served as a

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from 1799 to 1801 and again from 1813 to 1814; he kept a register of the marriages at which he officiated.http://www.dcgs-gen.org/dutchesstoc13-18.htm Contents of "The Dutchess", Volume 13, number 2 (Winter 1985-6) He was a member of the

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(Dutchess Co.) in

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, 1796–97,

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, 1808–09,

1814 Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...

, and

1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...

, representing the

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. Thompson died on June 23, 1834, in Fleming,

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. He was the son of Enos Thompson (d. 1806) and his wife Sara Hitchcock Thompson. The soldier and politician

Israel Thompson Israel Thompson (born New Haven County, Connecticut, March 7, 1742; died Pittstown, New York, November 25, 1805) was an American soldier, politician and an early settler of Pittstown, New York. Family Thompson was the son of Enos Thompson (died ...

(1742-1805) was his brother. Governor

Enos T. Throop Enos Thompson Throop ( ; August 21, 1784 – November 1, 1874) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. Early life and career Throop was born in Johnstown, New York on August 21 ...

(1784–1874), State Senator George B. Throop (1793–1854), and Congressman Israel T. Hatch (1808–1875) were his nephews, sons of Thompson's much younger sister Abiah (1762-1846).

References

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 169 and 309; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Lives of the Governors of the State of New York''
by John Stilwell Jenkins (pg. 479ff)

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* 1749 births 1834 deaths Members of the New York State Assembly Politicians from Dutchess County, New York New York (state) Federalists Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut People from Fleming, New York {{NewYork-NYAssembly-stub