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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiJacob THOMPSON
(1810-1885)
THOMPSON, Jacob, a
Representative from Mississippi; born in Leasburg, Caswell County,
N.C., May 15, 1810; attended the public schools and Bingham Academy
in Orange County; was graduated from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1831; member of the faculty of the
University of North Carolina in 1831 and 1832; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Pontotoc,
Miss., in 1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1851);
chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-ninth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second
Congress; appointed to the United States Senate in 1845, but never
received the commission; appointed Secretary of the Interior in the
Cabinet of President Buchanan and served from March 6, 1857, to
January 8, 1861, when he resigned; served as inspector general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; confidential agent of
the Confederacy to Canada in 1864 and 1865; settled in Memphis,
Tenn., in 1868 and managed the affairs of his extensive holdings;
died in Memphis, Tenn., March 24, 1885; interment in Elmwood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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