Charles Winston Thompson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 5th district
About Charles Winston Thompson
Lived 1860 – 1904 (aged 43). Charles Winston Thompson was an American politician.
Charles Winston Thompson (December 30, 1860 – March 20, 1904) was an American banker and politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Alabama's 5th district from 1901 till his death. He was a Democrat.
Biography Thompson was born on December 30, 1860, near Tuskegee, Alabama, to William P. and Mary W. (Jordon) Thompson. His father was a Confederate soldier who went on to become mayor of Tuskegee and sheriff of Macon County. Thompson married Estelle Alley on April 20, 1880. The couple had two children, Ernest W. and Charles Winston Jr., before her death on March 19, 1894. At the time he took his seat there was no free delivery of mail to rural addresses within his district. To address this situation he secured ten new rural mail routes for his state.
Thompson took ill and died from pneumonia during the afternoon of March 20, 1904, in Washington, D.C.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 5th district (1860-1904)
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Charles Winston Thompson was born on 30 December 1860 in Tuskegee.
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