Fletcher Thompson

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Fletcher Thompson
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Georgia's 5th district
In office
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Preceded byCharles Weltner
Succeeded byAndrew Young
Member of the Georgia Senate
from the 34th district
In office
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Preceded byCharlie Brown
Succeeded byW. Armstrong Smith
Personal details
BornStandish Fletcher Thompson
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College Park, Georgia, U.S.
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Marietta, Georgia, U.S.
PartyRepublican
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Kathryn Cochran
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EducationEmory University (AB)
Woodrow Wilson College of Law (LLB)[1]
OccupationLawyer, politician
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
United States Air Force
Years of service
1943–1953
UnitU.S. Army Air Corps
Battles/warsWorld War II
Korean War

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Standish Fletcher Thompson (February 5, 1925 – September 13, 2022) was an American lawyer, World War II veteran and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th congressional district of Georgia.

Early life

Thompson was born near Atlanta in College Park in Fulton County, Georgia. He graduated from Russell High School in East Point, Georgia. While at Russell High School, Thompson was the president of the Model Airplane Club.

Military service

Thompson completed Basic Training with the 90th Infantry Division before he was transferred to the Aviation Cadet Training Program in Wichita Falls, Texas. Thompson qualified as both a pilot and as a navigator. A growing need for Army Air Corps navigators resulted in his assignment as a navigator within the 6th Emergency Air-sea Rescue Squadron. Over the next several years, Thompson would earn seven service stars along with an Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal.[2] On demobilization, he attended the Methodist-affiliated Emory University in Atlanta, from which he graduated in 1949. During the Korean War, Thompson re-enlisted in the United States Air Force as a pilot.

Professional career

On returning from South Korea, Thompson graduated in 1957 from the now-closed Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta. The following year he was admitted to the Georgia bar and established a law firm in East Point. He was also president of an aviation insurance firm.

Politics

Georgia State Senate

In the November 3, 1964 general election, in which Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona became the first Republican presidential nominee to win Georgia's electoral votes, Thompson defeated then senior Democratic State Senator Charlie Brown in District 34.[3] Thompson was one of only four Republican members of the upper chamber of the legislature at the time. He was selected by the Democratic majority to represent Fulton County in the drafting and sponsorship of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority Act.

U.S. House of Representatives

Two years later, Thompson ran for Congress, becoming the first Republican since the Reconstruction era to represent Atlanta and the 5th Congressional District in the United States House.[4] The Democratic Executive Committee chose Archie Lindsey, then the chairman of the Fulton County Commission. Lindsey had three weeks to mount a campaign. Thompson prevailed, 55,423 (60.1 percent) to Lindsey's 36,751 (39.9 percent).[5] Thompson netted some 30% of the Black vote. Thompson voted for the initial House Resolution of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 but voted against the final Senate amendments to the Act.[6][7] Thompson was re-elected in 1968 and 1970, when he defeated Andrew Young, who after the next election in 1972 in a revised district succeeded Thompson in the Fifth District. In 1968, Thompson was the only Southern congressman to attend Martin Luther King's funeral, and he faced backlash from his constituents as a result.[8]

U.S. Senate campaign

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". In 1972, Thompson ran for the U.S. Senate. Sam Nunn defeated David H. Gambrell in the Democratic primary; Gambrell had been appointed by then Governor Jimmy Carter to succeed the late Richard B. Russell Jr. Thompson lost to Nunn, 362,501 votes (46.5 percent) to 404,890 (52 percent).[9]

Post-political career and death

After leaving the U.S. House, Thompson returned to his law firm in Atlanta. In 1985, he was made a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission. From 2009 until 2011, Thompson served as the Commander of the Atlanta World War II Roundtable, an organization that was created in 1986 "to hear and record the war experiences of World War II and to pass on to posterity the knowledge of World War II and the price – human and material – that was paid by our nation for the preservation of freedom in the United States and the world".[10]

Thompson died on September 13, 2022, aged 97.[11] His wife, Kathryn Cochran, whom he married in 1946, predeceased him by seven months.[12] They had two children: Charles and Deborah.[12]

Electoral history

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Year Republican Votes % Democratic Votes %
1966 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |√ Fletcher Thompson style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |55,249 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |60.1% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Archie L. Lindsey style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |36,751 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |39.9%
1968 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |√ Fletcher Thompson style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |79,258 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |55.6% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Charles L. Weltner style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |63,183 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |44.4%
1970 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |√ Fletcher Thompson style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |78,540 style="color:black; background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |57.4% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Andrew Young style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |58,394 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |42.6%
1972 United States Senate special election in Georgia[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Fletcher Thompson 362,501 46.54%
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Script error: No such module "Political party". George E. Schmidt 3,932 0.51%
Total votes 778,910 100.00%
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1972 United States Senate election in Georgia[17]
Party Candidate Votes %
Script error: No such module "Political party". Sam Nunn 636,060 53.96%
Script error: No such module "Political party". Fletcher Thompson 542,291 46.01%
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color; width: 2px;" | Write-in 391 0.03%
Total votes 1,178,742 100.00%
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See also

References

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  1. ^ Georgia Official and Statistical Register, 1971–1972 – page 988[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Short, Bob (Interviewer) (April 6, 2009). Fletcher Thompson, Reflections on Georgia Politics. University of Georgia.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Members Of The General Assembly Of Georgia – 1966 Term". State of Georgia. January 11, 1966. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Billy Hathorn, "The Frustration of Opportunity: Georgia Republicans and the Election of 1966", Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXI (Wintger 1987–1988), p. 43
  5. ^ Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, p. 1277
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR … -- House Vote #113 -- Aug 16, 1967". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TO PASS H. RES. 1100, A RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT IMMEDIATELY … -- House Vote #295 -- Apr 10, 1968". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sokol, Jason (2018). The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr (1st ed.). New York: Basic Books. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-465-05591-3.
  9. ^ Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, p. 1441
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Officers | the Atlanta World War II Roundtable". Archived from the original on 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Standish Fletcher Thompson". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  12. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kathryn Thompson Obituary - Marietta, GA". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fortson, Ben (1966). "Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, Governor, Lt. Governor, constitutional officers, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 8, 1966" (PDF). Digital Library of Georgia. p. 13. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fortson, Ben (1968). "Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for Presidential Electors, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 5, 1968" (PDF). Digital Library of Georgia. p. 13. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fortson, Ben (1970). "Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for U.S. Representatives, Governor, Lt. Governor, constitutional officers, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 3, 1970" (PDF). Digital Library of Georgia. p. 8. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GA US Senate - Special Election" – via OurCampaigns.com.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GA US Senate - Special Election" – via OurCampaigns.com.


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