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Francis Coleman Thompson (born October 29, 1941)〔enlou.com; House District 19; website discontinued〕 is a wealthy developer from Delhi in Richland Parish, Louisiana, USA, from which he served as a senior Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served continuously from 1975 until 2007. Because of state term limits, Thompson was ineligible to have sought a ninth four-year term for the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Instead, Thompson was elected outright over two fellow Democrats to the District 34 seat in the Louisiana State Senate vacated by the also term-limited Charles Jones (born 1950) of Monroe. Thompson received 13,763 votes (51 percent) to 10,937 (42 percent) for African-American State Representative Willie Hunter, Jr., of Monroe and 2,113 (8 percent) for Paxton J. Branch. Ten days after he vacated the seat to Thompson, Charles Jones was charged with two counts of making and subscribing a false federal income tax return and one count of tax evasion.〔''The Monroe News Star'', January 25, 2008〕 Hunter charged irregularities in the primary election in part on grounds that certain Thompson supporters in heavily black East Carroll Parish distributed food packages to the poor with instructions that they should vote for Francis Thompson to maintain such assistance.〔''The Monroe News-Star'', November 10, 2007〕 In addition to his own Richland Parish, Thompson's House district included all or portions of East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, and West Carroll parishes in northeast Louisiana. His Senate district includes parts of Concordia, East Carroll, Madison, Ouachita, Richland, and Tensas parishes. ==Early years and education== Thompson is the third of six children, five surviving, of Clyde Coleman Thompson, Jr., and the former Frances Nolan. He graduated from Delhi High School in 1959. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish. He also procured an Ed.D. degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (then Northeast Louisiana University). Thompson was a teacher from 1963 to 1965, but he vacated the classroom to become vice president of a manufacturing company from 1965 to 1972. Later, he returned to the classroom as a ULM assistant professor of education.〔 From 1968 to 1975, Thompson was an elected member of the Richland Parish School Board.〔 He won a special election in 1975 to fill the House seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Benny Gay Christian, who had served in the state House since 1964. Later in the year, Thompson won a full term in the seat, which in time became the single-member District 19. Prior to his legislative years, Thompson worked in Baton Rouge for the Louisiana Department of Education under Superintendent Louis J. Michot from 1974 to 1975. He was a member of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement from 1973 to 1974. Thompson is a former member of the Southern Regional Education Board and the Education Commission of the States. He has been active in the Retarded Children's Association and the Louisiana Mental Health Drug Advisory Council. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Lions International. Thompson is married to the former Marilyn Bryant〔 (born October 6, 1944). The couple lives at 456 Robin Hood Lane in Delhi. They have three children, including sons Francis Todd Thompson (born ca. 1963) of Baton Rouge and Brant L. Thompson (born April 1, 1965 of Delhi.〔Net Detective, People Search〕 Thompson is a Presbyterian. Thompson's brother and the oldest of his five siblings, Clyde Nolan Thompson (April 25, 1937 – July 31, 2015), was a multi-sport athlete at Louisiana Tech who for twenty years held the school record for stolen bases. He was also a Tech football quarterback. With his doctorate in professional education from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Clyde Thompson was a teacher and coach in several Louisiana high school and then at Louisiana Tech. In 1975, he became the drug education coordinator for District 8 for the Louisiana Department of Education. In 1980, Republican Governor Dave Treen named Thompson, a Democrat, as the deputy director of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. He then became the assistant to the president of the State Board of Education before he returned to Delhi and became the director of the Madison Parish Port, a position which he held for more than two decades until retirement in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clyde Coleman Thompson )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis C. Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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