George Edwin Thompson (March 4, 1904 – September 3, 1973) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
[2] In 1944, Thompson managed DA Robert F. Bradford's successful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and was appointed to succeed Bradford as district attorney.
[4] In 1951, he indicted Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dirk Jan Struik professor on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the governments of the United States and Massachusetts.
[5] The indictment was quashed in 1956 by judge Paul G. Kirk after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in a different case that the federal Smith Act superseded Massachusetts' sedition laws.
[6] In 1956, Thompson was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court by Governor Christian Herter.