Politics
- James Thompson (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1856–1857
- James Thompson (civil servant) (1848–1929), Acting Governor of Madras
- James Thompson (jurist) (1806–1874), congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- James A. Thompson, mayor of Sugar Land, Texas
- James F. Thompson, United States government official
- James Frederick Thompson (1884–1966), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- James G. Thompson (New York) (born 1829), New York politician
- James R. Thompson (born 1936), governor of Illinois and member of the 9/11 Commission
- James T. Thompson, Mayor of Birkenhead, England, circa 1899
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“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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