Samuel Benjamin Thompson (October 11, 1837 - August 1909) was a lawyer, judicial official, and Reconstruction Era politician in South Carolina. [1] [2]
He was a delegate to the 1865 South Carolina Constitutional Constitutional Convention. [3] He was also an elected member of the 48th general assembly from 1868 to 1870, one of the four representatives for Richland County. [4] He served as a state legislator for six years as well as a justice of the peace for eight years. [3]
He was the uncle of Charleston doctor Alonzo Clifton McClennan. He married Eliza Henrietta Montgomery and had nine children. Their eldest child, Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, became an educator and author. [3]
He and eight other reconstruction era legislators are buried at Randolph Cemetery. [1]