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Thompson was born on August 31, 1812, in Ravenna, Ohio. His father, David Thompson, was a settler from Virginia; his mother, Catherine (Kerney) Thompson, had been born in Ireland.
He was orphaned in his early teens and thrown on his own resources in Philadelphia, where acquaintances of his father befriended him.
He presumably attended school in the small schoolhouse he mentions as existing in Ravenna in 1816.
After working in the office of the Daily Chronicle, Philadelphia, he was appointed assistant (1830) to James Diament Westcott, secretary of the territory of Florida, under whom he studied law for several years. By 1835, however, he had turned again to journalism, this time in Augusta, Ga. , where he was associated with Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in issuing the States Rights Sentinel. For a few months in 1836 he served with an Augusta militia unit in the campaign against the Seminoles in Florida.
In the spring of 1838 he founded in Augusta a literary journal, the Mirror, which in 1842 he merged with the Macon Family Companion under the composite title of the Family Companion and Ladies' Mirror. Though the new periodical was discontinued in 1843 for lack of patronage, the humorous letters of "Major Jones" which Thompson began in one of its last issues attracted immediate attention, and a small collection of them was published locally as Major Jones's Courtship (1843), afterwards enlarged and republished in Philadelphia. Later appeared Major Jones's Chronicles of Pineville (1843) and Major Jones's Sketches of Travel (1848).
From 1843 to 1845 Thompson controlled the Miscellany, a weekly published in Madison, Ga. , but left in the latter year to assist the poet, Park Benjamin, with the Western Continent, a weekly in Baltimore, Md. Benjamin withdrew from the partnership after a few months, and Thompson continued the publication alone until 1850. At this time he returned to Georgia and founded the Savannah Morning News, which he edited until the time of his death and of which he made one of the strongest newspapers of the state.
During the sectional struggle preceding the Civil War he stoutly defended the institution of slavery. He not only wrote editorials in support of the Southern cause, but launched a volume of fictional propaganda, The Slaveholder Abroad (1860), full of excerpts from British newspapers designed to show that free England engendered more crime and true slavery than the South. During the Civil War he labored to maintain the morale of his fellow citizens, and in 1864 served as a volunteer soldier.
His writings include an unpublished farce, "The Live Indian"; a body of sketches, John's Alive (1838), published after his death; and a dramatization of The Vicar of Wakefield. He also edited W. A. Hotchkiss' A Codification of the Statute Laws of Georgia (1845). As an editor he was handicapped by sectional prejudices, but he succeeded in keeping the Morning News free of petty journalistic squabbling and steadfastly honest in reporting facts.
He died in Savannah, survived by his wife and several children.
William Tappan Thompson is remembered as an American writer who co-founded the Savannah Morning News in the 1850s, known then as the Daily Morning News. Thompson's best-known fictional character was Major Joseph Jones. His humorous volumes dealing with Major Jones not only entertained two or three generations of American readers but retain some permanent value as a record of provincial society.
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He took an active part in local, state, and national politics. In 1868 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention and in 1877 a member of the convention which shaped a new constitution for Georgia.
Thompson was a dignified and somewhat retiring man, but an excellent raconteur, a ready conversationalist, a kindly friend. He was independent in his judgments and uncompromising in support of what he considered right.
On June 12, 1837, he was married to Carolina A. Carrié of Augusta.
