Background
Thompson, Grover Cleveland was born on January 10, 1885 in Lawrence County, Kentucky, United States. Son of James Franklin and Amanda Helen (Watson) Thompson.
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Grover Cleveland Thompson
Grover C. THOMPSON, Member, City Board of Adjustment. Member of Commercial Law League of American; American and Kentucky State Bar Associations.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Western State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1908. Bachelor of Laws, University of Kentucky, 1910.
Career
Principal Gilbert (Louisiana) High School, 1908-1909, Waynesboro (Mississippi), 1911-1912, Brooksville (Mississippi), 1912-1913. Admitted to bar at Lexington and before Court of Appeals, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1910, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 1926, Supreme Court of the United States, 1950.
Practice of law in partnership with brother, Linzy O. Thompson, Lexington, 1913-1930. Son became associate with firm, June 1936. Director and secretary board directors Lexington Young Men’s Christian Association, 1927-1931.
Membership
Member of the board adjustment, Lexington and Fayette Company Planning and Zoning Commission, 1928-1960, chairman, 1932-1960. Democrat; member of the board of directors Kentucky Baptist Foundation, 1950-1959. President Law Alumni, University of Kentucky, 1937-1938.
Member American (insurance, business law sects., Bankruptcy committee 1945-1953), Kentucky State, Fayette Company bar associations, Coml. Law League of America (vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1947), International Association Insurance Counsel and Federal Insurance Counsel. Baptist; Clubs: Kentucky Mountain (president 1936), Blue Grass Executives (director 1944-1946, president 1951-1952).
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Member of Commercial Law League of American. American and Kentucky State Bar Associations.
Connections
Spouse Virginia Lee Gill, May 19, 1909, Gilbert, Louisiana.
- Father:
- James Franklin Thompson
- Mother:
- Amanda Helen (Watson) Thompson
- Spouse:
- Virginia Lee Gill
