Samuel Benjamin Thompson

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]