Biography of M. C. Thompson, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 341-342, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.



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M. C. Thompson since 1906 has been an active member of the Louisiana bar, and since 1916 has 
been in practice at Monroe, a member of one of the leading law firms of that city, with offices 
in the Central Savings Bank Building.

His father is Judge David Newton Thompson, one of the most conspicuous names in the history of 
Louisiana Jurisprudence.  Judge David Newton Thompson was born in Louisiana.  He studied law, 
was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of the state in 1881, and soon rose to 
eminence in his chosen profession.  His public service has made him especially well known.  In 
1892 he was elected district attorney for Concordia and Catahoula parishes and was reelected 
four years later, completing two terms in that office.  Following that he was elected judge of 
the District Court for the district comprising Franklin and Catahoula parishes.  He was first 
elected in 1900 and reelected in 1904.  Then in l908 followed election as judge of the Court of 
Appeal to succeed the late Governor Hall.  He was reelected in 1918, but in 1922 was called 
temporarily to serve on the Supreme bench, and this service continued until 1924, when he 
succeeded by regular election to his present post as a justice of the Supreme Court of 
Louisiana.

Judge Thompson married Elizabeth Holloman.  One of their sons, Hon. Wood H. Thompson, is 
assistant attorney general of Louisiana.  Their son M. C. Thompson was born in Catahoula Parish 
in 1883, and was liberally educated, attending the Jefferson Military College and Tulane 
University.  He received his LL. H. degree at Tulane in 1906, and for ten years practiced in 
his native parish.  He represented that parish in the Legislature two terms of four years each, 
from 1908 to 1916.  It was in April, 1916, that he removed to Monroe, and since then has shared 
in an extensive general practice as a partner of Col. F. P. Stubbs.

Mr. Thompson married Miss Maud Zurhellan, of Natchez, Mississippi.  They have one son, M. C., Jr.

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