Sydney Herbert Stewart Thompson (September 23, 1920 – November 26, 1997) was a merchant and served as a

Social Credit Party of Canada The Social Credit Party of Canada (), colloquially known as the Socreds, was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Canadian social credit movement. Origins ...

Member of Parliament from 1957 to 1958. Thompson first ran for a seat in the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Ca ...

for the

1957 Canadian federal election The 1957 Canadian federal election was held June 10, 1957, to select the 265 members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 23rd Parliament of Canada. In one of the greatest upsets in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative ...

. He defeated incumbent Richmond Francis Hanna to win the Edmonton—Strathcona electoral district. Thompson was defeated a year later by Terry Nugent in the 1958 federal election.

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* 1920 births 1997 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta People from Athabasca, Alberta Social Credit Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Alberta-MP-stub