Elishia Leon Thompson, Sr. (August 26, 1917 – May 14, 1990) was a policeman and state legislator from Arizona. He lived in Phoenix. He was a Democrat.
He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and moved to Phoenix in 1926. In 1942 he graduated from Phoenix Union High School. In 1957, while responding to a domestic disturbance call, he was stabbed three times and nearly died. He and his wife Jane had two daughters and four sons.
Thompson retired as a police officer in 1962, after serving for twenty years. That same year, he was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives. He served as a state representative for another twenty years, representing South Phoenix in Maricopa-9, then after Reynolds v. Sims the 8th, 28th, and 23rd legislative districts. From 1971-1972 he was the floor leader for the Democrats in the state house. He retired from the House in 1982.
In 1990, he died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease.
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