Thompson, Richard W. Born

in Culpepper Co., Va., June 9, 1869. Removed to Indiana 1834, where he was admitted to the bar in Lawrence Co. He waa frequently a member of the Legislature, also several] times a Presidential elector and national delegate, a member of Congre two terms, Judge of the Fifth Indiana Circuit Court and Secretary of the Navy in President Hayes’ Cabinet 1877-81. At the close of his term he accepted the chairmanship of the American Committee of the Panama Canal Co. When De Le eps Co. secured control of the Panama Railroad, Mr. Thompson became a director, was acquitted of any guilty knowledge of corruption charged against the management of the Canal Co., but retired to engage in the more congenial profe ion of authorship. He wrote three important works, ‘‘ Papacy and the Civil Power,” ‘Footprints of the Jesuits,”’ ‘‘ History of the Tariff,’’ ‘‘ Personal Recollections of sixteen Presidents.”” Died at bis home in Terre Haute, February 9, 1900. 295