About Cyrus Thompson
Lived 1855 – 1930 (aged 74–75). Cyrus Thompson was an American politician.
Cyrus Thompson (February 8, 1855 – November 20, 1930) was a politician and leader of the Populist Party in North Carolina. He served as North Carolina Secretary of State for one term, from 1897 to 1901.
Life Thompson studied medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School and Tulane University School of Medicine where he received a degree in 1878. Thompson, a medical doctor and farmer, represented Onslow County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883, and in the North Carolina Senate in 1885. Both times, he was elected as a Democrat. Thompson became a leader in the Farmers Alliance and bolted from the Democrats to become a Populist.
Personal life He married his wife, Florence Garland Kent, in 1882. They had ten children.
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American politician
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Cyrus Thompson was born in 1855 in Richlands.
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Cyrus Thompson died in 1930.
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