Print
Permanent LinkSenator Frank E. Thompson View All Years
FRANK E. THOMPSON
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Frank E. Thompson, begs leave to submit the following:
Frank E. Thompson was born in Grandview, Louisa county, Iowa, December 13, 1873, and died in Burlington, September 19, 1932. His parents were John W. and Mary (See) Thompson. He attended public school, high school at Winfield and at Muscatine, and was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1896. The same year he began the practice of law in Burlington, continuing it until failing health caused his retirement from active work some three years before his death. He was prominent in his profession, especially in the trial of criminal cases.
He gave his allegiance to the Republican party and was the chairman of his county committee for some time. In 1904 he was elected county attorney for Des Moines county and served two years. In 1914 he was elected senator, and was re-elected in 1918, and served inclusively from the Thirty-sixth to the Thirty-ninth General Assemblies; therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate: That in the passing of the Honorable Frank E. Thompson the state has lost a faithful servant and an honorable citizen.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
JAMES M. BELL,
A. CLAIRE DEWEY,
SANFORD ZEIGLER, JR.,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.