When Clara Jean Thompson was born on 13 February 1915, in Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States, her father, Alton Rex Thompson, was 37 and her mother, Rhoda Ann Gillies, was 33. She died on 26 January 1916, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Circleville Cemetery, Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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