Background
Born in Newcastle, Wyoming, he grew up on a ranch in Crook County and attended public schools in Beulah, Wyoming, and Spearfish, South Dakota.
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Born in Newcastle, Wyoming, he grew up on a ranch in Crook County and attended public schools in Beulah, Wyoming, and Spearfish, South Dakota.
He graduated in 1941 from the University of Wyoming Law School in Laramie.
A highly decorated World World War II veteran, Thomson served three terms in Wyoming"s only United States. House seat. On November 8, 1960, he was elected to the United States. Senate in 1960, but died a month later of a heart attack before taking office. Thomson was called to active duty on March 24, 1941 and commanded the Second Battalion, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry Regiment, Ninety-first Division.
He was released from active duty as a lieutenant colonel on January 24, 1946.
He did not seek renomination to the Eighty-seventh Congress, but was elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1960, for the term commencing January 3, 1961. However, he died of a heart attack in Cody, Wyoming in December, before his term in the Senate began.
Democratic Governor John Jay Hickey appointed himself to the seat but was defeated in a 1962 special election to serve out the term by Republican Milward L. Simpson. Thomson was interned at Arlington National Cemetery.
She was re-elected to five more terms, and served in that office for twenty-four years, until 1987.
He had been admitted to the bar in 1941 and commenced the practice of law in Cheyenne in February 1946. He was a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago and was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1952 to 1954. Thomson was elected as a member of the Republican party to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his death.