Jim thompson biography
Jim thompson biography
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Jim Thompson (designer)
American fashion designer (1906–1974)
Not to be confused with James Thompson (designer).
James Harrison Wilson Thompson (March 21, 1906 – disappeared March 26, 1967; declared dead 1974) was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s.
At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. Time magazine claimed he "almost singlehanded(ly) saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction".[1]
Early life
Jim Thompson was born in Greenville, Delaware in 1906.[2] He was the youngest of five children of Henry and Mary Wilson Thompson.
His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer; his mother was the daughter of James Harrison Wilson (1837–1925), a noted Union general during the American Civil War.[3]
Thompson spent his early years of education at St.
Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Princeton University in 1928,