Biography

01/20/1852 - 01/16/1887

THOMPSON, Lee, a Representative from Armstrong County; born, January 20, 1852 in Red Bank, Clarion County, Pa.; attended, Carter Seminary; attended, Dayton Academy; attended, Glade Run Academy; engaged, mercantile business; elected, justice of the peace; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1881 and 1883 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); died, January 16, 1887 in Midland, Midland County, Texas; interred, The Tidal Union Cemetery, Tidal, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.