Author: Thompson, Joseph Parrish
Alternate names: "Thompson, Joseph P. (Joseph Parrish), 1819-1879."; Joseph P. Thompson; J. P. Thompson; Joseph Parrish Thompson; Rev. Dr. Joseph Parrish Thompson; Joseph Parish Thompson
Born: 1819
Died: 1879
Bio: Dr Joseph Parrish Thompson, D.D., LL.D. was a protestant minister in New York, Boston, and later Germany. He became the Commissioner of the American Union Commission, using his pulpit to decry the Fugitive Slave Act on theological grounds.