Samuel Benjamin Thompson
Samuel Benjamin Thompson was a Reconstruction Era politician in South Carolina. He was a member of the 48th general assembly one of the four representatives for Richland County. He was a delegate to the 1865 South Carolina Constitutional Constitutional Convention. He served as a state legislator for six years as well as a justice of the peace for eight years.
He married Eliza Henrietta Montgomery and had nine children. Their eldest child, Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, became an educator and author.
He is buried at Randolph Cemetery with eight other reconstruction era legislators.
