John Thompson (Louisiana judge)

John Thompson (died 1810) was a registrar of lands in the Western District of the Territory of Orleans and judge of the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans.[1]

Thompson came to Louisiana from Kentucky in 1805 and was charged with opening the Western District land office in Opelousas, Louisiana. On September 17, 1808, Thompson was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to be a judge of the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans in place of William Sprigg who had returned to the Ohio Supreme Court.

Thompson died in February 1810 in New Orleans, and was succeeded by Francois Xavier Martin.[2]

References

  1. ^ Louisiana Court of Appeal-History
  2. ^ Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., The Louisiana Historical Quarterly (1922), p. 114.
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Preceded by Judge of the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
1808–1810 		Succeeded by


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