Steve Thompson

December 15, 1935

The couple is interred at New Winnsboro Cemetery, along with Steve Thompson"s brother, William Parks "Billy" Thompson (1939-1998). Prior to his real estate business, he was involved in trucking. He received federal farm payments in the amount of $48,802 between 1995 and 2012, an average of less than $3,000 per year. Thompson"s first wife, Jeanette H. Thompson (born March 1934), of Winnsboro was a principal in Thompson Trucking.He has two children, James West. Thompson and Laura Thompson. Sherrie Thompson is interred along with her father at McFarlen-Gurie Cemetery in Jonesville, where she was reared. The Thompsons were living in Ferriday in Concordia Parish at the time of her death, but Steve Thompson is a registered voter in Precinct 16 in Franklin Parish. Thompson unseated his fellow Democrat, William B. Atkins of Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, in the 1987 primary election with 21,576 votes (5027 percent) in a four-candidate field As a senator, Thompson was the chairman of the Senate Local and Municipal Affairs Committee and served as well on the Agriculture and Finance panels.He did not seek a third term in 1995, when Noble Ellington of Winnsboro defeated fellow Democrat Roy Hebron of Ball in northern Rapides Parish to claim the seat.

Steve Thompson

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Background

Thompson was a son of Walter T. "Slick" Thompson (1906-1961) and the former Ethel Parks (1910-2009), a native of rural Liddieville in Franklin Parish who spent fifty years as a classroom teacher for the Franklin Parish School Board.

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Thompson graduated from Winnsboro High School and attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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The couple is interred at New Winnsboro Cemetery, along with Steve Thompson"s brother, William Parks "Billy" Thompson (1939-1998). Prior to his real estate business, he was involved in trucking. He received federal farm payments in the amount of $48,802 between 1995 and 2012, an average of less than $3,000 per year.

Thompson"s first wife, Jeanette H. Thompson (born March 1934), of Winnsboro was a principal in Thompson Trucking.He has two children, James West. Thompson and Laura Thompson.

Sherrie Thompson is interred along with her father at McFarlen-Gurie Cemetery in Jonesville, where she was reared. The Thompsons were living in Ferriday in Concordia Parish at the time of her death, but Steve Thompson is a registered voter in Precinct 16 in Franklin Parish.

Thompson unseated his fellow Democrat, William B. Atkins of Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, in the 1987 primary election with 21,576 votes (5027 percent) in a four-candidate field As a senator, Thompson was the chairman of the Senate Local and Municipal Affairs Committee and served as well on the Agriculture and Finance panels.He did not seek a third term in 1995, when Noble Ellington of Winnsboro defeated fellow Democrat Roy Hebron of Ball in northern Rapides Parish to claim the seat.

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Sherrie Thompson was a beauty contest winner, Mission Northwestern State University, and during the 1970s a legislative aide who also worked for then Governor Edwin Edwards and then Louisiana Secretary of State, Paul J. Hardy. Atkins trailed with 15,988 (373 percent).Thompson won his second term in the 1991 primary with 26,840 votes *63 percent).

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David I. Patten, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Catahoula Parish, trailed with 8,694 votes (204 percent).

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