No known portrait

Born in 1797 in Nelson, Virginia.
Died on April 21, 1866 in Staunton, Virginia.

Elected by the General Assembly on February 22, 1866, but he died before he sat on the court.

Education:

Read law privately.

Other judicial service:

Judge, General Court, 1831-1851.
Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, 1851-1866.

Professional career:

Professional practice of law in Amherst County, Virginia, circa 1820-1831.
Virginia state delegate, 1826-1830.
Delegate, Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830.
Proprietor of Staunton Law School, 1839-1849, circa.

Further reading

Sources:

Elected, Election of Judges, Staunton Spectator (Staunton, Va.), February 27, 1866, col. 2, retrieved on March 10, 2014; birth, death, education, and career, “Lucas Powell Thompson, Staunton Law School, 1839-1849,” by E. Lee Shepard, in W. Hamilton Bryson, Legal Education in Virginia, 1779-1979: A Biographical Approach (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982), 596-599; see also Death of Judge Lucas P. Thompson, Staunton Spectator (Staunton, Va.), April 24, 1866, col. 1, retrieved on February 19, 2014. Thompson is depicted in a painting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 by George Catlin, owned by the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.