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Thompson was a native and lifelong resident of Doyline, a [[village]] in south Webster Parish near [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]. He was a [[farmer]] and [[business]]man who operated a store and a [[cotton]] gin. In 1930, Thompson was elected to the Webster Parish School Board and became the board president in 1936 and was thereafter president of the Louisiana School Boards Association. He left the school board to take his legislative seat in the spring of 1944. [[Jimmie Davis]], then of [[Shreveport]], was the incoming [[governor]].<ref>”Doyline Resident Is Candidate for Representative: C.W. Thompson Makes Formal Announcement of Candidacy,” ''Webster Review'' and ''Signal-Tribune,'' October 5, 1943, p. 1.</ref>
Thompson was a native and lifelong resident of Doyline, a [[village]] in south Webster Parish near [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]. He was a [[farmer]] and [[business]]man who operated a store and a [[cotton]] gin. In 1930, Thompson was elected to the Webster Parish School Board and became the board president in 1936 and was thereafter president of the Louisiana School Boards Association. He left the school board to take his legislative seat in the spring of 1944. [[Jimmie Davis]], then of [[Shreveport]], was the incoming [[governor]].<ref>”Doyline Resident Is Candidate for Representative: C.W. Thompson Makes Formal Announcement of Candidacy,” ''Webster Review'' and ''Signal-Tribune,'' October 5, 1943, p. 1.</ref>
The outgoing representative, James Edwin Bolin, Sr. (1914-2002), later the district attorney and a district and circuit court judge, was also a Doyline native. Bolin was away with the military in [[World War II]] and did not seek re-election.
The outgoing representative, James Edwin Bolin, Sr. (1914-2002), later the district attorney and a district and circuit court judge, was also a Doyline native. Bolin was away with the military in [[World War II]] and did not seek re-election.
==Legislative career==
==Legislative career==