When John David Thompson was born on 26 July 1866, in Pike, Indiana, United States, his father, Henry Thompson, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Catharine Phillips, was 27. He married Samilda Jane Brewster on 28 November 1886, in Pike, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Hamilton Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Patoka Township, Pike, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 August 1939, in Oakland City, Columbia Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Augusta, Lockhart Township, Pike, Indiana, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Historical Boundaries: 1874: Pike, Indiana, United States
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English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
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