Thompson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth , Forty-seventh , and Forty-eighth Congresses ( March 4 , 1879 – March 3 , 1885 ) . He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War ( Forty-eighth Congress ) . He served as delegate to the 1884 Democratic National Convention . He moved to New York City and resumed the practice of law . He died in Washington , D.C. , December 15 , 1909 and was interred in Spring Hill Cemetery , Harrodsburg , Kentucky
1884 Democratic National Convention
1884 Democratic National Convention
Philip B. Thompson Jr.