Hedge Thompson (January 28, 1780 - July 23, 1828), a Representative from New Jersey. Thompson was born in
Salem, New Jersey
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University of Pennsylvania
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at
Philadelphia
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in 1802 and practiced his profession in Salem; member of the
New Jersey General Assembly
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in 1805; served in the
New Jersey Legislative Council
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(now the
New Jersey Senate
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) in 1819; appointed associate judge of Salem County, N.J., in 1815 and again in 1824; served as collector for Salem County from 1826 to 1828; elected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, until his death in Salem, N.J., on July 23, 1828; interment in St. John's Protestant Episcopal Churchyard.
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