Carmi Thompson

Carmi Alderman Thompson (September 4, 1870 – June 22, 1942) was an American attorney and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio House and Ohio Secretary of State from 1907 to 1911. He also fought in the Spanish–American War.

Biography

Carmi Thompson was born at Wayne County, West Virginia. He was moved to Ironton, Ohio, when he was three years old, where he graduated from Ironton High School in 1886.

Thompson graduated from Ohio State University in 1892, and taught at the High School in Bement, Illinois, for two years. He returned to Ohio State, and graduated from the law school in 1895 with a degree Bachelor of Laws. He began practice in Ironton. He was appointed, and then elected City Solicitor of Ironton from 1896 to 1903.

In 1921 he was a member of the advisory committee to the conference on limitation of armaments held at Washington, D.C. In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him special commissioner to make a survey of the economic and internal conditions of the Philippines.

Thompson was nominated for Ohio Governor in 1922, but lost to Democrat A. Victor Donahey.

Thompson died on June 22, 1942, at Cuyahoga County, Ohio.