Charles Perkins Thompson

{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Charles Perkins Thompson | image = File:CharlesPerkinsThompson.jpg | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = {{ushr|MA|6|6th}} | term_start1 = March 4, 1875 | term_end1 = March 3, 1877 | preceded1 = [[Benjamin Butler]] | succeeded1 = [[George B. Loring]] | office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term2 = 1871–1872 | birth_date = {{birth date|1827|7|30}} | birth_place = [[Braintree, Massachusetts]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1894|1|19|1827|7|30}} | death_place = [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]] | resting_place = Oak Grove Cemetery | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = | profession = | alma_mater = [[Amherst College]] | children = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | commands = | unit = | battles = | awards = | footnotes = }}

'''Charles Perkins Thompson''' (July 30, 1827 – January 19, 1894) was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]]. He was born in [[Braintree, Massachusetts|Braintree]] on July 30, 1827 to Frederick M. and Susanna (Cheesman) Thompson. He attended public schools, the [[Hollis Institute]], and [[Amherst College]]. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Gloucester, Massachusetts|Gloucester]].<ref name="Book">{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Charles Hutchinson |title=A genealogy of the descendants of John Thomson of Plymouth, Mass. : also sketches of families of Allen, Cooke and Hutchinson / Charles Hutchinson Thompson. |date=1890 |publisher=D.D. Thorp |location=Lansing |page=154 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005769658}}</ref>

Thompson served as [[United States Assistant District Attorney]] from 1855 to 1857, was elected a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], and was a delegate to the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 1872. He was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[Forty-fourth Congress]] (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877), defeating [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Benjamin Butler]]. Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the [[Forty-fifth Congress]].<ref name="Book"/>

Thompson resumed the practice of law, and served as city solicitor of [[Gloucester, Massachusetts|Gloucester]]. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for [[Governor of Massachusetts]] in 1880 and again in 1881, and served as judge of the [[Superior Court of Massachusetts]] from 1885 until his death in Gloucester on January 19, 1894. His interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.<ref name="Book"/>

==See also== * [[1872 Massachusetts legislature]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{CongBio|T000195}}

{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=[[Benjamin Butler]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee for [[Governor of Massachusetts]]|years=[[1880 Massachusetts gubernatorial election|1880]], [[1881 Massachusetts gubernatorial election|1881]]}} {{s-aft|after=Benjamin Butler}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=6 | before=[[Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Butler]] | after= [[George B. Loring]] | years=March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877}} {{s-end}}

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