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Died. 22 October 1963 (age 74) Occupation. Cinematographer. William C. Thompson (30 March 1889 in Bound Brook, New Jersey [1] – 22 October 1963 in Los Angeles) was an American cinematographer . He started his career in the 1910s and is best remembered today as the cinematographer of many of the films of Ed Wood, including Glen or Glenda (1953 ...
Early life and education. Thompson was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is the son of Elaine Thompson, a New York City public-school teacher, and William C. Thompson Sr., formerly a prominent Brooklyn Democratic Party leader, City Councilman, State Senator and judge on New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.
He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1965 to 1968, sitting in the 175th, 176th and 177th New York State Legislatures. He was a Democrat. [6] He was Brooklyn's first African-American State Senator. [2] [7] [8] He was a member of the New York City Council from 1969 to 1973. [6] In November 1973, he was elected to the New York Supreme ...
William Francis Kynaston Thompson (1909–1980), British officer who fought and was captured at Arnhem. William Thompson (admiral) (1922–2018), American admiral, former chief of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) (1927–1950), Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Mary Walker Wyse. . ( m. 1901) . Signature. William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical ...
William Boyce Thompson (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and ...
William Thompson (1775 – 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the cooperative, trade union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx . Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners ...
Allen Thompson, Jr. Shelby Thompson. William I. S. Thompson. Alma mater. University of Mississippi. Allen Cavett Thompson (November 6, 1906 – October 18, 1980) [1] was an American politician in the state of Mississippi. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and as mayor of Jackson ...