The findings of the committee led to the enactment of a law that required registration and reporting by fund-raising organizations and individuals.
[2] In November 1954, after re-apportionment, Tompkins ran in the 8th district for re-election but was defeated by O'Connor.
of Queens County, and a special election for the vacant Senate seat was held on February 7, 1956.
[3] Tompkins defeated the Democratic nominee Thomas A. Duffy, and was again a member of the State Senate for the remainder of the session of 1956.
[4] He died on February 7, 1965, while being interviewed by the press on the steps of the NYPD Station House at West 68th Street in Manhattan, of a heart attack;[5] and was buried at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens.