John Renshaw Thomson

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John Renshaw Thomson

United States Senator from New Jersey
In office March 4, 1853 – September 12, 1862
Preceded by	Robert F. Stockton
Succeeded by	Richard S. Field
Personal details
Born	(1800-09-25)September 25, 1800 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	September 12, 1862(1862-09-12) (aged 61) Princeton, New Jersey
Political party	Democratic

John Renshaw Thomson (September 25, 1800 – September 12, 1862) was an American merchant and politician from New Jersey.

Life

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended the common schools in Princeton, New Jersey, and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). In 1817, he went to China and became a merchant in Canton where he was United States Consul from 1823 to 1825. He returned to the United States, and in the winter of 1825 married Annie Stockton, a daughter of Richard Stockton, and settled in Princeton.

He was a director and Secretary of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company; and was President, and later Treasurer, of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. He was a delegate to the New Jersey State Constitutional Convention of 1844, and was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey the same year. In 1845, he married Josephine A. Ward, daughter of Congressman Aaron Ward.

He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother-in~law Robert F. Stockton, and was re-elected in 1857, holding office from March 4, 1853, until his death in Princeton, New Jersey. He was Chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (36th United States Congress) and the Committee on Pensions (Thirty-sixth Congress).

He was interred in Princeton Cemetery. His widow, Josephine Ward Thomson, married Gov. of Maryland Thomas Swann in 1878.

External links

John Renshaw Thomson at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Obit in The Congressional Globe (Vol. 54, part 1, page 7)

United States Senate
Preceded by Robert F. Stockton	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from New Jersey March 4, 1853 – September 12, 1862 Served alongside: William Wright, John C. Ten Eyck	Succeeded by Richard S. Field
Party political offices
Preceded by Daniel Haines	Democratic Nominee for Governor of New Jersey 1844	Succeeded by Daniel Haines

v t e United States Senators from New Jersey

Class 1	Elmer Rutherfurd Davenport Schureman Ogden Condit Lambert Wilson Southard McIlvaine Bateman Dickerson Southard W. Dayton R. F. Stockton Thomson Field J. Wall Wright F. T. Frelinghuysen J. Stockton Randolph Sewell Blodgett J. Smith J. Kean Martine J. Frelinghuysen Edwards H. Kean Moore Milton Barbour Walsh H. Smith Williams Brady Lautenberg Corzine Menendez

Class 2	Paterson Dickinson F. Frelinghuysen R. Stockton J. Dayton Kitchell Condit Dickerson T. Frelinghuysen G. Wall Miller Wright Ten Eyck J. Stockton Cattell F. T. Frelinghuysen McPherson Sewell Dryden Briggs Hughes Baird Edge Baird, Jr. Morrow Barbour Smathers Hawkes Hendrickson Case Bradley Torricelli Lautenberg Chiesa Booker

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 55589810 LCCN: n85185574

Persondata
Name	Thomson, John Renshaw
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	September 25, 1800
Place of birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death	September 12, 1862
Place of death	Princeton, New Jersey

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