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THOMSON, John Renshaw, senator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 September, 1800; died in Princeton, New Jersey, 13 September, 1862. He studied for some time at Princeton, but left without taking his degree, in order to pursue a commercial career. He went to China in 1817, and in 1820 had regularly established himself in the Chinese trade, and opened a house in Canton, where President Monroe appointed him United States consul in 1823. He returned to the United States in 1825, married a sister of Commander Robert F. Stockton, and resided at Princeton. He was appointed a director of the Camden and Amboy railroad in 1835, which office he held during his lifetime. He canvassed the state in 1842 in support of the Constitutional convention that met in 1844, and was nominated the same year for governor by the Democratic party, but was defeated. On the resignation of Commander Stockton as United States senator in 1853, Mr. Thomson was elected for the remainder of the term, and he was re-elected in 1857 for six years. His second wife was a daughter of General Aaron Ward, and after Mr. Thomson's death she married Governor Thomas Swann of Maryland.
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