| Genevieve Clark Thomson | |
| Image Upright: | 1.5 |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1894 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Journalist, politician |
Genevieve Clark Thomson (November 30, 1894 – February 16, 1981[1]) was an American suffragist.
Genevieve Clark was born to politician and Speaker of the House James Beauchamp ("Champ") Clark and Genevieve Bennett Clark[2] on November 30, 1894. She studied at the Friends' school in Washington, DC.[3] She met publisher James M. Thomson during the Baltimore convention where she was working for her father's presidential nomination and Thomson was covering the event.[4] They were married on June 30, 1915, in Bowling Green, Missouri. The whole state was invited.[5]
As a suffragist, Thomson was an advocate of temperance and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1913, she became a reporter in Washington.[6] In 1924, she announced her candidacy to fill H. Garland Dupre's Congressional seat on the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, based about New Orleans, Louisiana.[7] She lost to J. Zach Spearing with Spearing earning 16,733 votes and Thomson 12,745.[8]