Thompson - WIlliam Howard
Source: Thompson, William Howard (1871-1928) -- also known as William
H. Thompson -- of Garden City, Finney County, Kan. Son-in-law of
Andrew J. Felt. Born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Ind.,
October 14, 1871. Democrat. District judge in Kansas, 1906-13;
U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1913-19; defeated, 1918; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1916; candidate for
U.S. Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1922. Died in 1928.
Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (The Political
Graveyard)
THOMPSON, William Howard, 1871-1928
Senate Years of Service: 1913-1919
Party: Democrat
Senate Years of Service: 1913-1919
Party: Democrat
Library of Congress
THOMPSON, William Howard, a Senator from Kansas; born in
Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Ind., October 14, 1871; moved
with his parents to Nemaha County, Kans., in 1880; attended the
public schools; graduated from the Seneca Normal School in 1886
and from the Lawrence Business College in 1891; official court
reporter of the twenty-second judicial district of Kansas
1891-1894; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and
commenced practice in Seneca; clerk of the Kansas Court of
Appeals in Topeka and practiced law 1897-1901; moved to Iola,
Kans., in 1901 and continued the practice of law; county attorney
of Allen County; moved to Garden City in 1905; judge of the
thirty-second judicial district of Kansas 1906-1913, when he
resigned, having been elected Senator; elected as a Democrat to
the United States Senate in 1912 and served from March 4, 1913,
to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the
United States Senate in 1918; chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in the Departments of Commerce and Labor (Sixty-third Congress),
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce
(Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee to Audit and
Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed
the practice of law at Kansas City, Kans., in 1919; moved to
Tulsa, Okla., in 1923 and practiced law in Kansas City and Tulsa;
moved to Washington, D.C., in 1927, where he continued the
practice of law, and died there on February 9, 1928; interment in
Glenwood Cemetery.
