1925 Biography - M. C. Thompson

M. C. Thompson since 1906 has been an active member of the Louisiana bar, and since 1916 has been in practice at Monroe, a member of one of the leading law firms of that city, with offices in the Central Savings Bank Building.

His father is Judge David Newton Thompson, one of the most conspicuous names in the history of Louisiana Jurisprudence. Judge David Newton Thompson was born in Louisiana. He studied law, was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of the state in 1881, and soon rose to eminence in his chosen profession. His public service has made him especially well known. In 1892 he was elected district attorney for Concordia and Catahoula parishes and was reelected four years later, completing two terms in that office. Following that he was elected judge of the District Court for the district comprising Franklin and Catahoula parishes. He was first elected in 1900 and reelected in 1904. Then in l908 followed election as judge of the Court of Appeal to succeed the late Governor Hall. He was reelected in 1918, but in 1922 was called temporarily to serve on the Supreme bench, and this service continued until 1924, when he succeeded by regular election to his present post as a justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Judge Thompson married Elizabeth Holloman. One of their sons, Hon. Wood H. Thompson, is assistant attorney general of Louisiana. Their son M. C. Thompson was born in Catahoula Parish in 1883, and was liberally educated, attending the Jefferson Military College and Tulane University. He received his LL. H. degree at Tulane in 1906, and for ten years practiced in his native parish. He represented that parish in the Legislature two terms of four years each, from 1908 to 1916. It was in April, 1916, that he removed to Monroe, and since then has shared in an extensive general practice as a partner of Col. F. P. Stubbs.

Mr. Thompson married Miss Maud Zurhellan, of Natchez, Mississippi. They have one son, M. C., Jr.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, pages 341-342.