William Howard Thompson [SEP] position held
William Howard Thompson
William Howard Thompson (October 14, 1871February 9, 1928) was a United States Senator from Kansas.
Biography.
Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, he moved with his parents to Nemaha County, Kansas in 1880, where attended the public schools and graduated from the Seneca Normal School in 1886. He graduated from the Lawrence Business College in 1891. He was the official court reporter of the twenty-second judicial district of Kansas from 1891 to 1894, and studied law; he was admitted to
Indianapolis Freeman that Chase's Bee was "a paper without an editor". Thompson and Chase later reconciled. At the time of Thompson's death, Chase supported Thompson and his daughter in a bitter battle to remove Roscoe Conkling Bruce from his position as assistant superintendent of DC schools in charge of colored schools.
Later life.
As a 1912 Republican National Convention delegate, Chase helped renominate William Howard Taft as the Republican candidate for President. His support was not successful, as the Southern-born Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson