{{short description|Belizean politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Curl Thompson | image = | caption = | office1 = Deputy Prime Minister of Belize | prime_minister1 = Manuel Esquivel | term_start1 = 15 December 1984 | term_end1 = 4 September 1989 | predecessor1 = Florencio Marin | successor1 = Florencio Marin | office2 = Leader of the Opposition | monarch2 = Elizabeth II | governor_general2 = Elmira Minita Gordon | prime_minister2 = George Cadle Price | term_start2 = January 1983 | term_end2 = 14 December 1984 | predecessor2 = Theodore Aranda | successor2 = Florencio Marin | office3 = Member of the Belize House of Representatives for Mesopotamia | term_start3 = 21 November 1979 | term_end3 = 30 June 1993 | predecessor3 = C. L. B. Rogers | successor3 = Michael Finnegan | birth_date = 1934 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = United Democratic Party }}
'''Curl Osmond Thompson''' was a Belizean politician. Thompson served as an Area Representative in the Belize House of Representatives and as the deputy prime minister. He was also interim leader of the United Democratic Party for a brief period in the early 1980s.
== Biography == Thompson was born in 1934.<ref name="whoiswho">{{cite book |title=International Yearbook and Stateman's Who's Who |date=1997 |publisher=Bowker-Saur; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=1857392205}}</ref> He was the UDP's nominee for the Belize House in the Belize City-based Mesopotamia constituency in 1974, but was defeated by the People's United Party incumbent, C. L. B. Rogers. Thompson was elected to the seat in a 1979 rematch. In January 1983 Thompson became Leader of the Opposition upon Theodore Aranda's departure from the UDP, serving concurrently as interim party leader until Sen. Manuel Esquivel was elected as Aranda's permanent replacement, with Thompson becoming deputy party leader. Thompson served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs<ref name="whoiswho" /> during the first Esquivel government from 1984 to 1989.<ref name="udp40">[http://udp.org.bz/who-we-are/our-history/ "The United Democratic Party at 40"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812223111/http://udp.org.bz/who-we-are/our-history/ |date=2014-08-12 }}, United Democratic Party. (accessed 31 March 2015)</ref>
Thompson was posthumously awarded the Order of Belize in September 2010.<ref name="order">[http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=17831 "Patriots Honoured"], Tropical Vision Limited, 17 September 2010. (accessed 31 March 2015)</ref> Curl Thompson Street in Belize City and the Curl Thompson Building in Belmopan are named after him.
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