Edwin Keith Thomson
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Edwin Keith Thomson (February 8, 1919 - December 9, 1960) was a United States Representative from Wyoming. Born in New Castle, Wyoming, he attended the public schools in Beulah, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota. He was graduated from the University of Wyoming Law School in 1941; he called to active duty on March 24, 1941 and commanded the Second Battalion, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry Regiment, Ninety-first Division. He was released from active duty as a lieutenant colonel on January 24, 1946. He had been admitted to the bar in 1941 and commenced the practice of law in Cheyenne in February 1946; he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952, and was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1952 to 1954.
Thomson was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his death; he did not seek renomination to the Eighty-seventh Congress but was elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1960, for the term commencing January 3, 1961. However, he died in Cody, Wyoming before his term in the Senate began. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.
