Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-15
COL. PHIL THOMPSON DIES
KENTUCKIAN TAKEN ILL WHILE
WAITING FOR CAR.
Expires in Hospital-Three Terms
in Congress-Distinguished
Kentucky Lawyer.

Col Phil Thompson, sixty-four years
o.d. who served three terms in Congress
from Louisville. KY. some years ago.
died at the Emergency Hospital shortly
after 5 o'clock this morning.
Death was due to a hemorrhage Of the
stomach. Col Thompson was taken ill
shortly after 6 o'clock last night.
While waiting for a street car at the
G street side of the Riggs House, where
he was guest. he fell to the pavement.
He was removed to the Emergency Hos
pital.
Dr. w. NJ. Barton. his family physician,
who was summoned, called DR.. William
Gerry Morgan into consultation. The
physicians reached the conclusion that
the case was hopeless.
Last April Col. Thompson was operated
on by DIR. Barton at the Georgetown
University Hospital, and afterward went
to New York The operation gave him
much relief and in New York he seemed
in fairly good condition.
Two weeks ago he came to Washing
ton to appear in a case before the Su-
preme Court. He registered at the Riggs
House, and was visited by his friends in
this city. He was at the Capitol several
times.
Last evening he left friends in the
Riggs House lobby and went to the street
to board an eastbound car, to go in the
direction OF the Capitol. 1t was while he
was waiting for the car that he was
stricken
Messages were sent to John B. Thomp-
son, his brother. and Mrs Matte Thomp-
son Davis, a daughter, informing them
of the death. The brother, who is a
distiller in Louisville, is now in Chicago.
Mrs. Davis is in Lexington, Mass, where
her son is preparing for college. She Is
sister-in-law of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer.
Undertaken Joseph Gawler this morning
took charge of the body and prepared it
for burial. Arrangements for the funeral
will not be completed until the arrival of
Col. Thompson's brother or daughter.
Philip b. Thompson. jr., was born in
Harrodsburg. KY. October Is, 1915. and
lived there up until the time he was
elected member Oh the Forty-sixth
Congress as a democrat He served also
in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
Congresses. He was a lawyer by profess
sion, and since his retirement to private
life had spent a great deal of his time in
the National Capital.
d.d. b afraid to go anywhere
with little Phil Thompson" That is what
-.-LIgan, the noteu Lun.eoerate ieaue.,
used to say of him.
He had won during the civil war. in
which he was ont OF the youngest soi-
diers of the Confederacy a wide reputa-
ton for personal bravery. He did not
know what fear was. He would go any
ere - { G& an nS
for .ne most dangerous tasks and came
through number.ess times by the skin OF
his teeth.
In Washington, when in Consress and
later when out of it. he was popular to
marked degree. He was one of the old
buard at Jonn Champernns. where he
was on intimate terms with all the noted
men who used to gather there to sample
the rare wines and taste the famous
dishes. He was a bon vivant and, his
friends say, prince of good fellows, al
though to earn the t4tie ne spent TWO or
three fortunes.
Up to three years ago, when his health
began to fail. there were few men better
known in Washington and probably no
man who had a wider personal acquaint-
ance.
Mr.. Thompson was a nephew of John
B. Thompson, at one time United States
senator from Kentucky.