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THOMPSON, George Washington, lawyer, born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, 14 May, 1806; died near Wheeling, West Virginia, 24 February, 1888. He was graduated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1824, studied law in Richmond, Virginia, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in his native town, but afterward removed to western Virginia. He was United States district attorney in 1849, and was elected to congress as a Democrat in the following year, serving from 1 December, 1851, till 30 July, 1852, when he resigned to accept a seat on the bench of the circuit court of his state. He was re-elected in 1860, but, declining to take the test oaths that were required by the reorganized government of Virginia, retired from public life. He had previously served on the commission that was appointed to determine the boundary between Virginia and Ohio. He was a frequent contributor to the Boston "Quarterly Review" in 1839-'42, and, besides numerous legal, political, and educational addresses, has published "Dissertation on the Historical Right of Virginia to the Territory Northwest of the Ohio ": "Life of Linn Boyd" ; "The Living Forces of the Universe" (Philadelphia, 1866) ; and "Deus Semper." When he was eighty years old he wrote "The Song of Eighty," a poem (printed privately, 1886).
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