Biography

05/28/1846 - 03/05/1909

THOMPSON, Caleb C., a Representative from Warren County; born, May 28, 1846 in Pine Grove Township, Warren County, Pa.; attended, Jamestown Union School; attended, Edinboro State Normal School (now Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro); farmer; teacher; attorney-at-law (1871-1909); elected, burgess, Tidioute, Warren County (1878); elected, District Attorney, Warren County (1878-1880); elected, burgess, Warren (1885-1886); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889, 1891, and 1893 terms; elected, Speaker (1891-1894); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1894); died, March 5, 1909 in Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakland Cemetery, Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania.