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Toggle Electoral history subsection. 2.1 Senator of Kansas. ... William Howard Thompson (October 14, 1871 – February 9, 1928) was a United States senator from Kansas.
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [ 1 ] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago .
William H. Thompson may refer to: William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; William Henry Thompson (1853–1937), U.S. senator from Nebraska; William Howard Thompson (1871–1928), U.S. senator from Kansas; William Hale Thompson (1868–1944), mayor of Chicago
In 1902 he ran, unsuccessfully, for governor against John H. Mickey. He became a member of the commission for the creation of a new capital . He was an associate justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1924 to 1931.
William Thompson was born on August 16, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York to an unmarried mother. Little is known of Thompson's early life, but he grew up in an impoverished tenement house neighborhood. He dropped out of school at a young age, and spent his teen years wandering the streets. [ 3 ]
Secondly, Thompson had lost the 1918 Republican U.S. Senate primary. [3] Disappointed by his performance in the 1918 Republican U.S. Senate primary, and eager to revive his political capital by winning reelection, incumbent mayor William H. Thompson announced his campaign relatively early, doing so in the autumn of 1918. [3]
The Sen. William H. Thompson House, at 902 N. 6th St. in Garden City, Kansas, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] It was the home of U.S. Senator William H. Thompson from 1907 to 1919. [2] It is a three-story Classical Revival-style house on a high cement stone block foundation. It is 38 by ...
Thompson was born in Scotland on April 24, 1852 [1] and came to the United States when he was six years old. [2] Both of his grandfathers were ministers, and his father was Joseph Thompson, a clergyman of Scotch Presbyterian Church. [3] He also had an aunt who was an actress. When he was young, Thompson worked as a call boy at