About Patrick W. Tompkins
Lived 1804 – 1853 (aged 48–49). Patrick W. Tompkins was an American politician, lawyer and judge.
Patrick Watson Tompkins (1804 – May 8, 1853) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Mississippi from 1847 to 1849.
Biography Born in Kentucky in 1804, Tompkins received a limited education. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
He served as judge of the circuit court.
Congress Tompkins was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Thirtieth Congress).
Later career and death He moved to California during the gold rush of 1849, and died in San Francisco, California, May 8, 1853. He was interred in Yerba Buena Cemetery, and later moved around 1870 to Golden Gate Cemetery.
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American politician
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Patrick W. Tompkins was born in 1804 in Kentucky.
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Patrick W. Tompkins died on 8 May 1853 in San Francisco.
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Patrick W. Tompkins was a politician, lawyer and judge.
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