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About Ed Thompson

Ed Thompson (born December 25, 1944, in Elroy, Wisconsin) is the Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin. He was also the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002, and received 11% of the vote in that race. He was elected to his first term as mayor of Tomah in April, 2000, with 58% of the vote. He was again elected mayor of Tomah on April 1, 2008, by nearly a 2 to 1 margin against the incumbent, Charles Ludeking. His older brother, Tommy Thompson, was previously Governor of Wisconsin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is the owner of the Tee-Pee supper club, a restaurant in Tomah. He was the subject of the documentary A Remarkable Man.

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