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John Thompson
Lee County
John Thompson was born in Virginia about 1786. He married Nancy Buchanan in 1803 in Montgomery County, Virginia. They had seven children. She died about 1832 in Marion, Indiana. He married Sarah Lee Matlock in Hendricks, Indiana, in 1834. By 1840, they had eventually settled in Lee County, Iowa. He lived in Green Bay township, Lee County, at the time he was a member of the 1844 Iowa Constitutional Convention. He was nominated on the Democratic ticket and served in the 7th and 8th Territorial Councils and in the 3rd General Assembly. In 1850, John and his wife Sarah, and their large family were still living in Green Bay township. According to his will he had 15 children. He was a farmer. He died in 1857.
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