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Thompson, Joseph Parrish

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Birth Date 1819

Death Date 1879

Personal Name 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

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.