David Thompson (American football)

David Farrod Thompson (born January 13, 1975) is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He played college football at Oklahoma State.

References

David Thompson (Canada West politician)

David Thompson (1793 – 1851) was an entrepreneur and a political figure in Canada West. He represented Haldimand in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1851 as a Reformer.

He served as an officer in the militia during the War of 1812 and was a contractor during the construction of the first Welland Canal. Thompson built a number of mills on the Grand River which led to the establishment of the town of Indiana. He cleared land and built his home on what would later be known as the Ruthven Estate, now a National Historic Site of Canada. With William Hamilton Merritt, Thompson was a promoter of the Grand River Navigation Company, an enterprise which transformed the Grand River into a navigable waterway for commercial activity between Brantford and Lake Erie. Thompson died in office in 1851.

His son David represented Haldimand in the assembly for the Province of Canada and the Canadian House of Commons.

References

David Thompson (footballer, born 1962)

David Thompson (born 27 May 1962) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder.

External links

David Thompson (explorer)

David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer." Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometres of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived."

Biography

Thompson was born in Westminster to recent Welsh migrants, David and Ann Thompson. When Thompson was two, his father died and the financial hardship of this occurrence resulted in his and his brother's placement in the Grey Coat Hospital, a school for the disadvantaged of Westminster. He eventually graduated to the Grey Coat mathematical school and was introduced to basic navigation skills which would form the basis of his future career. In 1784, at the age of 14, he entered a seven-year apprenticeship with the Hudson's Bay Company. He set sail on 28 May of that year, and left England .

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)

He arrived in Churchill (now in Manitoba) and was put to work copying the personal papers of the governor of Fort Churchill, Samuel Hearne. The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House, Saskatchewan and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787. On 23 December 1788, Thompson seriously fractured his leg, forcing him to spend the next two winters at Cumberland House convalescing. It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor. It was also during this time that he lost sight in his right eye.

David Thompson (attorney)

David H. Thompson is an American trial attorney and the managing partner of the law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, a litigation boutique.

Thompson has litigated numerous high-profile cases, including civil litigation on behalf of the Duke lacrosse players, challenges to a wide variety of gun control laws around the country, civil rights claims, First Amendment challenges, and separation of powers issues. Beyond constitutional law, he has also secured several large trial verdicts in commercial disputes, including a $205 million trial verdict in AmBase Corporation v. United States. And he frequently advises government whistleblowers in qui tam matters.

Thompson has also served as a visiting professor at both Georgetown University Law Center and at University of Georgia Law School. At both institutions, he has taught classes on how to litigate high-profile cases.

Thompson was awarded an AB degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1991, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1994, Thompson received a JD degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

David Thompson (baseball)

David Thompson (born August 28, 1993) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the New York Mets organization in Minor League Baseball. He played college baseball at the University of Miami.

Career

Thompson attended Westminster Christian School in Miami, Florida. He played baseball, football and basketball. During his career he hit 55 home runs which broke the Florida state record for career home runs which had been held by Alex Rodriguez. He was also a quarterback in football, throwing for 2,055 yards and 20 touchdowns with 11 rushing touchdowns as a senior. Thompson was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 38th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign.

Thompson originally committed to the University of Miami to play both college baseball and college football. However, he left the football team to focus on baseball full time. As a freshman, Thompson started 51 of 52 games between first and third base. He hit .286/.368/.462 with six home runs and 46 runs batted in (RBI) over 182 at-bats. As a sophomore he played in only 30 games due to a blood clot and thoracic outlet syndrome. In 108 at-bats he hit .278/.368/.352 with 15 RBI. Thompson returned in 2015 and was named a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy.