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Clifton L. Thompson

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on November 3, 1845. They lived in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, in 1850 and in 1860 in its Fredericksville Parish. They had daughters Ann C. Thompson (b.1847), Frances Thompson (b.1848 and dying before 1860) and Lizzie Thompson (1855-) and sons John C. Thompson (1850-) and William T. Thompson
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By the time of Virginia's first postwar election, Thompson was a Radical Republican. Albemarle County voters elected Thompson and African-American James T. S. Taylor (son of Fairfax Taylor who demanded the right for African Americans to sit on juries and attend the University of Virginia) as
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Clifton Thompson's relation to his Hanover County successor in the House of Delegates, C.E. Thompson, is unclear. So is any relationship with J.L. Thompson (a 40 year old hotel keeper in Ashland, Hanover County in 1860). In the same 1860 census, this C.L. Thompson and his wife lived in
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in 1869, and Thompson served a single term (Winn would also represent Hanover County in 1874-1875). In 1879 and 1883 C. L. Thompson was a federal tobacco inspector based in Charlottesville, which could be a patronage position consistent with his Republican politics.
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Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle County, which is not adjacent to Hanover county, but rather separated by Orange and/or Louisa counties
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Thompson listed his occupation as "merchant" or "retired merchant" on federal census forms before he gained a federal
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recruited from Albemarle County and who became the local militia's first fatality during the
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Born in 1825 in Virginia to the former Avis O. Bowen and her husband, William A. Thompson.
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C. L. Thompson married Pamela E. Marshall (1835-), daughter of Coleman Marshall in
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are unclear, particularly his relation to private George Thompson, who joined the
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U.S. Register of Civil Minitary and Naval Service available on ancestry.com
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Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
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Virginia House of Delegates
Hanover
Albemarle County, Virginia
Republican
Charlottesville, Virginia
Republican
American Civil War
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868
Albemarle County, Virginia
Virginia House of Delegates
Hanover County, Virginia
Orange, Virginia
Middlebrook
patronage
American Civil War
Albemarle County
American Civil War
19th Virginia Infantry
First Battle of Bull Run
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868
Alexander Rives
Hanover County
W. R. Winn
Virginia House of Delegates
"Captain C. L. Thompson"
Richmond Times
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1825 births
1900 deaths
19th-century American legislators

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