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|footnotes=Thompson is best known academically for his definitive [[biography]] of the southern statesman Robert Toombs of [[Georgia]]. He also penned a biography of Israel Shreve, the father of Henry Miller Shreve, for whom [[Shreveport]] is named.
|footnotes=Thompson is best known academically for his definitive [[biography]] of the southern statesman Robert Toombs of [[Georgia]]. He also penned a biography of Israel Shreve, the father of Henry Miller Shreve, for whom [[Shreveport]] is named.
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'''William Young Thompson''' (October 15, 1922 – April 12, 2013)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=william-y-thompson&pid=164200088&fhid=6320|title=Dr. William Y. Thompson|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|accessdate=March 28, 2018}}</ref> was a retired [[historian]] who was affiliated for most of his academic career, from 1955 through 1988, with [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]]. A specialist in the history of his native [[The South|American South]], Thompson served as chairman of the university history department from 1965 until his retirement in 1988.
'''William Young Thompson''' (October 15, 1922 – April 12, 2013)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=william-y-thompson&pid=164200088&fhid=6320|title=Dr. William Y. Thompson|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|accessdate=March 28, 2018}}</ref> was a [[historian]] who was affiliated for most of his academic career, from 1955 through 1988, with [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]]. A specialist in the history of his native [[The South|American South]], Thompson served as chairman of the university history department from 1965 until his retirement in 1988.
==Background==
==Background==