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Theo Ashton Thompson (March 31, 1916 – July 1, 1965) was a
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Louisiana's 7th congressional district Louisiana's 7th congressional district was a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana located in the southwestern part of the state. It last contained the cities of Crowley, Louisiana, Crowley, Eunice, Louisiana, Eunice, Jennings, L ...
in the southwestern corner of the state. Born in Ville Platte in
Evangeline Parish Evangeline Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. the population was 32,350. The parish seat is Ville Platte. History The parish was created out of lands formerly belonging to St. Landry Parish in 1910. The majority ...
in south
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, Thompson attended public schools there. From 1932 to 1934, he completed a two-year course in higher accounting at
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in
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. From 1934 to 1940, Thompson was the traveling auditor for the Louisiana Highway Commission. In 1942, he was the Louisiana representative at the National Assembly of the States in the development of the
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program at a convention held in
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,
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. Thompson was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his death July 1, 1965, in an automobile accident in Gastonia,
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. While in Congress he was a signatory to the 1956
Southern Manifesto The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, during the 84th United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. The manife ...
that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in ''
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''. He was interred at Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery in Ville Platte. Thompson was succeeded in Congress by the future Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, then a
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Acadia Parish Acadia Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 57,576. The parish seat and the most populous municipality is Crowley. The parish was founded from parts of St. Landry Parish in ...
.


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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) There are several lists of United States Congress members who died in office. These include: *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949) *List ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Theo Ashton 1916 births 1965 deaths American accountants Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana Louisiana State University alumni People from Ville Platte, Louisiana Road incident deaths in North Carolina United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Signatories of the Southern Manifesto 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives