Ruth Thompson (September 15, 1887 – April 5, 1970) was a Republican[1] politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

During and after World War II she worked as a civilian employee of the U.S. Army in Washington, D.C., and in Europe.

On February 26, 1954, Thompson introduced legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records.

[2] She was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination to the 85th Congress in 1956, being defeated by fellow Republican Robert P. Griffin and returned to her home in Whitehall.

Ruth Thompson died in Plainwell Sanitorium in Allegan County, Michigan, and was interred in Oakhurst Cemetery of Whitehall.