Carmi Thompson
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Carmi Alderman Thompson (September 4, 1870–after 1926) was a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 politician in the U. S. State of Ohio
Ohio
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 who was Speaker of the Ohio House and Ohio Secretary of State
Ohio Secretary of State
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 from 1907-1911. He also fought in the Spanish American War.

Biography

Carmi Thompson was born at Wayne County, West Virginia
Wayne County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 42,903 people, 17,239 households, and 12,653 families residing in the county. The population density was 85 people per square mile . There were 19,107 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile...

. He was moved to Ironton
Ironton, Ohio
Ironton is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lawrence County. The municipality is located in southern Ohio along the Ohio River. The population was 11,211 at the 2000 census. Ironton is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the...

, Lawrence County, Ohio
Lawrence County, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 62,319 people, 24,732 households, and 17,807 families residing in the county. The population density was 137 people per square mile . There were 27,189 housing units at an average density of 60 per square mile...

 when he was three years old, where he graduated from Ironton High School
Ironton High School
Ironton High School is a public high school in Ironton, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Ironton City School District. Their nickname is the Fighting Tigers...

 in 1886.

Thompson graduated from Ohio State University
Ohio State University
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 in 1892, and taught at the High School in Bement, Illinois
Bement, Illinois
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 for two years. He returned to Ohio State, and graduated from the law school
Moritz College of Law
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 in 1895 with a degree Bachelor of Laws. He began practice in Ironton. He was appointed, and then elected City Solicitor of Ironton from 1896 to 1903.

Thompson was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio House of Representatives
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 in 1903 and served in the 76th and 77th General Assemblies, 1904-1906. In the 77th General Assembly (1906), he was chosen Speaker of the House. In 1906, he was nominated, and then elected Secretary of State, and served 1907-1911.

During the Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

, Thompson was captain of Company I of the 7th O. U. S. V. I. He was colonel of the 7th regiment, O.N.G., from 1901-1906. He was commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans
United Spanish War Veterans
Soon after the Spanish-American War ended, in early 1899, discharged veterans rushed to form fraternal societies. Among these were the Spanish War Veterans, the Spanish-American War Veterans, the Servicemen of the Spanish War, American Veterans of Foreign Service, the Army of the Philippines, the...

 in 1926.

He was Treasurer of the United States
Treasurer of the United States
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, and after 1913, he was in the iron ore and shipping business. In 1921 he was a member of the advisory committee to the conference on limitation of armaments held at Washington, D.C. In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 appointed him special commissioner to make a survey of the economic and internal conditions of the Philippines.

Nominated for Ohio Governor in 1922, lost to Democrat A. Victor Donahey
A. Victor Donahey
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