When Jessie E Thompson was born on 22 November 1915, in Cameron, Texas, United States, her father, Frederick Alexander Thompson Sr, was 25 and her mother, Lillie Pearl Oaks, was 20. She lived in Pea Ridge, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 2006. She died on 8 August 2006, in Bentonville, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Seligman Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, Barry, Missouri, 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.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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