T. Ashton Thompson

T. Ashton Thompson

Theo Ashton Thompson (March 31, 1916 - July 1, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.

Born in Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, Thompson attended the public schools and the Louisiana State University 1932-1934, completing course in higher accounting. Traveling auditor for State highway commission 1934-1940. Transferred to State reorganization plan. Louisiana representative at the national assembly of the States in the development of the civil defense program in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942.He served in the United States Army Air Force 1942-1946.He served as State budget officer and financial adviser to the Louisiana Legislature from 1948 to 1952.He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the State employees retirement system 1947-1953.He represented the United States Department of State in Louisiana in training foreign representatives in principles of democracy in 1950 and 1951.

Thompson was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his death July 1, 1965, in an automobile accident in Gastonia, North Carolina.He was interred in Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery, Ville Platte, Louisiana.

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