Background
Thompson, Floyd E. was born on December 25, 1887 in at Roodhouse, Greene County, Illinois, United States. Son of Albert Alonzo and Sarah Josephine (Edwards) Thompson.
Thompson, Floyd E. was born on December 25, 1887 in at Roodhouse, Greene County, Illinois, United States. Son of Albert Alonzo and Sarah Josephine (Edwards) Thompson.
Graduate high school, Roodhouse. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
1 daughter, Mary Ellen (Mistress P. G. Beach, Junior). Teacher country schools, 1907-1909. Principal high school, Manchester, Illinois, 1909-1910.
Editor public East Moline (Illinois) Herald, 1911-1912.
Self-educated in law. Admitted to Tennessee and Illinois bars, 1911.
Elected state’s attorney Rock Island County, Illinois, 1912, re-elected, 1916. Elected justice Supreme Court of Illinois, April 1919, to fill vacancy, reëlected 1921 (chief justice, 1922-1923).
Resigned September 1928, to become Democratic candidate for government of Illinois.
Now member firm Thompson, Raymond, Mayer, Jenner & Bloomstein. Chicago Delaware United States Attorney General’s Crime Conference, 1934. Chairman advisory committee on Revision Federal Judicial Code and Criminal Code, 1944-1946.
Member of advisory commission on military justice Secretary of War, 1946.
President Illinois States Attorney Association, 1916-1917. Member American Bar Association (chairman criminal law section, 1922-1924.
Chairman of Commission on Criminal Procedure, 1933-1935. Illinois State delegate 1939-1940.
Board of Governors 1941-1944.
State Bar delegate, 1945-1948. Assembly delegate, 1948-1955. Chairman American Citizenship Committee 1948-1949.
Commission on survey administration criminal justice, 1954-1957), Illinois State Bar Association (chairman committee drafting civil practice act 1930-1933, president 1933-1934.
Chairman of the section on judicial selection, tenure and administration, 1950-1951. Commission on revision judicial article of Illinois constitution 1951-1957), Chicago Bar Association (chairman committee federal taxation, 1939-1940.
President 1943-1944), American Law Institute (life. Advisory on code of criminal procedure prepared by Institute, 1925-1931.
Advisory model penal code since 1954.
Member of council since 1944), Association Bar of New York, American Judicature Society, College of Trial Lawyers, Sons of the American Revolution, Chicago Association Commerce (Chairman of Commission on taxation, 1941-1942. Chairman public affairs committee, 1942-1945), Order of Coif (honorary). Elk Grand Forum, 1927-1932.
Grand Exalted Ruler, 1932-1933.
Trustee National Foundation since 1936, secretary since 1937).
Clubs: Law, Union League, Chicago Farmers (president 1947-1948).
Married Irene Condit Worcester, July 2, 1918.