Leon County, Florida

Waddy Thompson

Waddy Thompson was born in Pickensville, South Carolina, on September 8, 1798. He died in Tallahassee (Leon) Florida on November 23, 1868. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1814 and began the practice of law five years later. He served four years in the South Carolina legislature prior to 1830 and then became solicitor of the western circuit. From 1835 until 1841, he was one of the leaders of the Whig party in Congress and, in 1842, he was appointed minister to Mexico, where he made two important treaties with the Mexican Government and procured the release of more than 200 Texan prisoners. He subsequently published Recollections of Mexico.

Adapted from New Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica (Twentieth Century Edition), 1907.

Thompson lost his fortune in the Civil War, moved to Madison, Florida, in 1867, and died on a visit to Tallahassee on November 23, 1868. He was buried in the [Saint John's] Episcopal Cemetery in Tallahassee.

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