Jacob Thompson
![Thompson between 1855 and 1865, by [[Matthew Brady]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Jacob_Thompson_-_Brady-Handy.jpg)
In 1864, Jefferson Davis asked Thompson to lead a delegation to Canada, where he appears to have been leader of the Confederate Secret Service. From here, he is known to have organised many anti-Union plots and was suspected of many more, including a possible meeting with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Union troops burned down his mansion in Oxford, Mississippi, the hometown of William Faulkner, who based some of his fictional characters on Thompson. Provided by Wikipedia
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Speech of Mr Thompson of Mississippi on the Oregon billdelivered in the House of Representatives January 30 1845Bookby Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885
Published 1845