Ed Thompson

Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin

Small business owner

Mr. Ed's Tee Pee Supper Club (Tomah, WI)

Born

Christmas Day, 1944 (Elroy, WI)

Parents

Allan Edward & Julia Ellen Dutton Thompson

Siblings

Tommy G. Thompson (Washington, DC), Arthur R. Thompson (Mineral Point, WI) & Juliann Martin (Yucaipa, CA)

Military service

U.S. Navy

Children

Ann Marie Greene, 35, is a biology teacher in Richmond, Virginia. She is married to Fred Greene. Ann Marie has one daughter, Madison, age 6.
Kristin Beth Ashford is a nurse practitioner at the University of Kentucky. She is married to David Ashford. Kristin Beth has four children Brittany age 12, Keaton age 9, Christopher 2 age, and Emily Ann, newborn April 20, 2002.
Allan Edward Thompson III, 30, is self-employed in Tomah, Wisconsin.
Joshua Paul Thompson, 22, recently graduated from UW-Madison with a triple major in Political Science, German, and International Relations. Joshua Paul is currently employed as volunteer coordinator for the Ed Thompson campaign.

History

Like his more famous big brother Tommy, Ed Thompson grew up in Elroy, Wisconsin. His parents ran a small grocery store with gas pumps out front. As Ed grew up, he worked in the store after school and on weekends. There he learned the value of hard work and got to know many of the farmers from that region and the challenges they faced every day.

In high school at Elroy, Ed enjoyed his academics and excelled at extra curricular activities, including football and basketball. After a brief period at the University of Wisconsin, Ed enlisted in the U.S. Navy. For a time after that, he worked at the federal prison at Oxford, Wisconsin, seeing the inside of our criminal justice system first hand. Ed went into business himself, first following in his father's and mother's footsteps when he purchased a small grocery store at Kendall, Wisconsin. While raising four wonderful children with his high school sweetheart wife, he grew that business. Today he owns and operates Mr. Ed's Tee Pee Supper Club in downtown Tomah and his family has grown to include five grandchildren.

Stepping out of his big brother's shadow, Ed ran for office on his own. The people of Tomah elected him Mayor. One of Ed's proudest accomplishments in doing that was in opening up city government to the people.