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Thompson missed 11.4 percent of all [[roll call vote]]s during his congressional tenure.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/theo_thompson/410797 Rep. Theo Thompson]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 11, 2021.</ref>
Thompson missed 11.4 percent of all [[roll call vote]]s during his congressional tenure.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/theo_thompson/410797 Rep. Theo Thompson]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 11, 2021.</ref>
Thompson is interred, along with his second wife, the former Leatrice Soileau (1929-1989), at Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery in Ville Platte.<ref name=bioguide/>
[[Edwin Edwards]], then a freshman state senator from Crowley in Acadia Parish, won the [[special election]] to succeed
Thompson in the U.S. He was subsequently elected in 1972 to the first of his four nonconsecutive terms as governor
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