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→‎Political life: According to GovTrack, Edwin Willis voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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[[File:T. Ashton Thompson 1965.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Thompson in 1965.]]
 
[[File:T. Ashton Thompson 1965.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Thompson in 1965.]]
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Thompson died a week before passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which Boggs, Morrison, and Willis supported.<ref>.TO PASS H.R. 6400, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT. -- GovTrack.us, accessed August 24, 2021.</ref> Hemissed 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>
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Thompson died a week before passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], which Boggs and Morrison supported.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/h87 TO PASS H.R. 6400, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT.] -- GovTrack.us, accessed August 24, 2021.</ref> Hemissed 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>
    
==Death in office==
 
==Death in office==
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