Thaddeus Boothe Lampton was born near Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi, on October 23, 1867, and he died on February 8, 1938.

He was a graduate of Columbia High School and the University of Mississippi class of 1889. A one-year course at the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1890 helped to prepare Lampton for a long business career. He served as state treasurer from October 1902 to January 1904 during the administration of Mississippi governor A. H. Longino, completing the unexpired term of George Carlisle. Lampton was also a member of the board of trustees of Millsaps College in Jackson and Whitworth College in Brookhaven and treasurer of the Mississippi Children's Home Society.

Mary (Mamie) Dorsey Terrell married Thaddeus Boothe Lampton on June 10, 1897. The couple apparently met while Terrell was visiting in Magnolia. Mamie Terrell Lampton was a graduate of Ward-Belmont College in Nashville. Her parents, Vernon Lagrange and Lida Fuqua Terrell, lived in Crystal Springs for many years, but they had moved to Jackson by the 1890s. Her grandfather, Samuel W. Lewis, was the commander of Fort Adams, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, during his military career. The Terrells were descendants of James A. Gilliland of South Carolina, an early Presbyterian missionary in Mississippi. Mamie Terrell Lampton had three sisters: Adine, who married Frank D. Lee of Shreveport, Louisiana; Lala, who married Charles McDavitt; and Lida, who married Lex Brame. Lampton’s brothers included Cary, Douglas, and Vernon Terrell.

Thaddeus and Mamie Lampton raised three children: Adine Terrell (1900-1975), Lala Helen (1903-1934), and Thaddeus Boothe, Jr. (b. ca. 1910). Adine Terrell Lampton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, married George Clayton Wallace, Jr. (ca. 1893-1962) of Memphis, Tennessee, on June 10, 1925. Helen Terrell Lampton, a graduate of Goucher College, married John Blake Lowe, Jr., of Baltimore, Maryland, on December 19, 1925. Thaddeus Boothe, Jr., a graduate of the University of Virginia and the business school of Harvard University, married Helene Tupper McClure of Sardis, Mississippi, in 1940. Lampton pursued a career in the family banking and business enterprises.


A LEADER IN SOUTHERN BANKING AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS.
The South has contributed to the North many great men in science, literature, law, and finance, yet it retains within its bosom some of the brightest men of the day; men who have distinguished themselves in the various trades and professions so that their name has gone abroad. It is through the efforts of such men, their brain power and undertakings that the new South of today stands pre-eminent.

It is not too much to say that Thad B. Lampton, subject of this sketch, is a veritable wizard of finance, a position he has secured through his own efforts and the conservative business management of large interests which have been entrusted to his care.

Throughout Mississippi the word, "Lampton, "means much. Then Lampton chain of banks situate at Magnolia, Columbia, Mount Olive, Wesson, Tylertown, and Mechanics, represent in total resources almost two million dollars, while the Lampton Realty Co., with a full-paid capital of $100,000 is the owner of over one hundred thousand acres of the most fertile lands in Mississippi and Louisiana, all free from incumbrance. In these various Lampton institutions, Thad B. Lampton has played and is playing a prominent part; in some of them he officiates as president, in others as vice-president and treasurer, in all he is a leading spirit.

Born at Tylertown in Pike County in October 1867, Mr. Lampton is in a sense a young man, especially in appearance; yet inexperience he has ripened into that financial age which gives him the confidence of the public and of his business associates. On the death of his father in 1885, Mr. Lampton's disabilities arising from his being a minor, were removed, and since that date he has personally transacted all business affairs on his own account.

After thorough preparation, he entered the University of Mississippi, graduating from there in 1889. Destined for a mercantile and financial life, he attended Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; shortly after graduating there from he entered mercantile life at Tylertown, Miss. In 1894 he took entire charge of the interests of the Lampton Mercantile Co., at Magnolia; this firm then being successors to the Atkinson & Lampton Co. Inc. His careful management of the affairs of this firm indicated what his future success would be.

Mr. Lampton was married in 1897 to Miss M. D. Terrell of Jackson, Miss., a most estimable lady; their union has been blessed by three children—two girls and a boy, now of the ages of thirteen, nine and four years.

Gov. Longino in 1902 appointed Mr. Lampton as State Treasurer of Mississippi to fill out the unexpired term of two years of George Carlisle. His handling of the State's finances was but an evidence of the confidence reposed in him by the executive. He was later selected and named as receiver of the Mississippi Mills, then in insolvency, by agreement of the large banking interests of New Orleans, who represented the majority of the bond and stockholders. This was in 1906. A year later having operated the mills during this period, he turned over to the creditors outside of all running expenses, something over one half million dollars—an unexpected showing of his financial worth and business ability.

Mr. Lampton was a director of the Germania National Bank of New Orleans, which was later merged into the Whitney-Central National, now the largest bank in the South. He is now a director in this institution, having been elected at the organization of the bank. He is financially and otherwise interested and connected in both official and financial ways with the Lampton chain of banks, located throughout Southern Mississippi.

In February 1913, he removed to Jackson, Miss., to become actively associated with the Capital National Bank, of which he is Vice-president, and the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Co., of which he is president. Mr. Lampton has lived and was married in Jackson; he has been closely identified for years with many of its heaviest financial institutions; he is in no sense a stranger to the city; he is in truth of all Mississippi, and this State should be proud to claim him as her own. His constructive work was manifest as one of the building committee of the Jackson Fertilizer Co., and he rendered conspicuous service in the building of the new State Charity Hospital.

The Lawyer and Banker and Central Law Journal, Volume 6
edited by Charles Ellewyn George, 1913