Steve Thompson (Louisiana politician)
| Steve D. Thompson | |
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| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 32nd district |
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In office 1988–1996 |
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| Preceded by | William B. Atkins |
| Succeeded by | Noble Ellington |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 15, 1935 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Jeanette H. Thompson (divorced) |
| Children |
James W. Thompson |
| Alma mater |
Winnsboro High School |
| Occupation | Real estate agent |
December 15, 1935
Winnsboro, Franklin Parish
(1) Jeanette H. Thompson (divorced)
James W. Thompson
Laura Thompson
Winnsboro High School
Steve D. Thompson (born December 15, 1935) is a real estate agent in Winnsboro, Louisiana, who served from 1988 to 1996 in the Louisiana State Senate from District 32, which encompasses all or parts of the seven parishes of Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, Franklin, LaSalle, Rapides, and Tensas.
Thompson was a son of Walter T. "Slick" Thompson (1906-1961) and the former Ethel Parks (1910-2009), a native of rural Liddieville in Franklin Parish who spent fifty years as a classroom teacher for the Franklin Parish School Board. The couple is interred at New Winnsboro Cemetery, along with Steve Thompson's brother, William Parks "Billy" Thompson (1939-1998). He has another brother, Tommy Thompson of Shreveport and a sister, Betty Zane Williams of Baton Rouge. Thompson graduated from Winnsboro High School and attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Prior to his real estate business, he was involved in trucking.
Thompson's first wife, Jeanette H. Thompson (born March 1934), of Winnsboro was a principal in Thompson Trucking.He has two children, James W. Thompson and Laura Thompson. From his second marriage to Sherrie Hardie Thompson (c. 1953-2014), the daughter of Oliver "Billie" Hardie (1926-2007) and Nell Wyles Hardie (born 1933) of Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, Thompson acquired a step-daughter, Tiffany Danielle Foster. Sherrie Thompson was a beauty contest winner, Miss Northwestern State University, and during the 1970s a legislative aide who also worked for then Governor Edwin Edwards and then Louisiana Secretary of State, Paul J. Hardy. Sherrie Thompson is interred along with her father at McFarlen-Gurie Cemetery in Jonesville, where she was reared. The Thompsons were living in Ferriday in Concordia Parish at the time of her death, but Steve Thompson is a registered voter in Precinct 16 in Franklin Parish.
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