Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson was born on January 22, 1826, in Jefferson County, and spent his life operating across a range of occupations that reflected the restless ambitions of nineteenth-century American men. He used English as his working language and moved through worlds that were commercial, technical, civic, and military in turn.
Over the course of his career, Thompson worked as a merchant, an engineer, an inventor, and a politician — a combination that suggests someone comfortable moving between practical trades and public life. He also served as a military officer, and the record shows he held citizenship in both the United States and the Confederate States of America, placing him among those Americans whose allegiances were formally divided during the Civil War era. The Library of Congress records him under the authorized name "Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876," indicating that Meriwether was part of his full name alongside the Jeff by which the label identifies him. That four-part occupational profile — merchant, engineer, inventor, politician — along with his military service marks a life that did not settle into any single professional identity.
Thompson died on September 5, 1876, in St. Joseph, at the age of fifty. The authorized Library of Congress label brackets his life precisely between those two dates, 1826 and 1876, and St. Joseph stands as the recorded endpoint of a career that had taken him through commerce, engineering, invention, politics, and soldiering.
Quotes by Jeff Thompson
The implementation of VoIP was the only solution that would allow voice traffic at a very small cost,
He's any parent's dream. He's so well-rounded. He's great in the community, does so much for his church and student government. He's a great athlete, and he got great SAT scores.
But in the last two weeks I have had calls from five people to talk about building houses.
In the summer I was getting up at 5 a.m. every morning and driving to Fort Worth three times a week for rehab. I've been working hard trying to get back. It really put everything in perspective because you never know when it's going to be gone.
I'm really proud of the team's performance as a whole in a tough environment on Senior Night in front 10,800. ... Whatever the reason, we weren't as sharp as we needed to be to give Alabama a challenge.
Steve Wells did a real good job defensively. We played a real good team game. That's kind of how you like to see us. They couldn't stop Bruce inside.
It's the same as last weekend and the weekend before. It doesn't matter who we're competing against because our routines are the same. That's the approach I want them to take. It shouldn't feel harder because it's Georgia. It's the same routine they do every day in the gym.