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Mark Thomson (1739-14 December 1803) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NJ) from 1795 to 1799, succeeding John Beatty and preceding Henry Southard.

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Mark Thomson was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1739, and he engaged in milling before serving as a justice of the peace in Sussex County, New Jersey in 1773 and as a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799, and he died in 1803.

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