Wiley Thompson (September 23, 1781 – December 28, 1835) was a United States representative from Georgia.
Born in Amelia County, Virginia, Thompson moved to Elberton, Georgia, and served as a commissioner of the Elbert County Academy in 1808. He served in the Georgia Senate from 1817 to 1819 and was appointed Major General of the Fourth Division of the Georgia Militia[1] in November 1817, a position in which he served until his resignation in November 1824.
Thompson was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th United States Congress and reelected as a Crawford Republican to the 18th Congress. Thompson was then elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th and three successive Congresses (20th, 21st and 22nd). His congressional tenure spanned from March 4, 1821, through March 3, 1833.[2]
After his congressional service, Thompson served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1833. He became an Indian agent[3] to the Seminoles and was appointed in 1834 to superintend the removal of the Seminoles from Florida. This episode of his life was artistically described by Thomas Mayne Reid in the 1858 novel Osceola. Thompson was subsequently killed by a band of Seminoles led by Osceola at Fort King, Florida, on December 28, 1835, and was buried on his estate in Elberton.[4]
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day as the massacre, Osceola and his followers shot and killed Agent WileyThompson and six others during an ambush outside of Fort King. On December 29...
for Osceola to join them. However, at the time he was busy killing WileyThompson. They finally gave up waiting and attacked without him. Several Seminoles...
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agent, WileyThompson, declared that those chiefs were deposed from their positions. As US relations with the Seminole deteriorated, Thompson forbade...
Seminole warriors. Following Osceola's murder of US Indian agent General WileyThompson, in December 1835 Micanopy (with Osceola) attacked US forces under Major...
recorded father, and 3 with Indian parents. Augustus Steele wrote to WileyThompson (Indian agent at Fort King) in 1835 concerning the legal status of those...
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JSTOR 2392402. March, J; Simon, H (1958). Organizations. New York: Wiley. Thompson, J D (1967). Organizations in Action. New York: McGraw-Hill. Allen...
theorized that Wiley was responsible for Passineau's disappearance after he had been arrested. On May 31, 2004, 31-year-old Lottie Thompson, a mother of...
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composed of Indians and Blacks, most of the latter being runaway slaves. WileyThompson, the Indian agent at Fort King, wrote to Florida governor William Pope...
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