Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (November 8, 1810 – July 23, 1862) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1857 to 1861. He was the father of Emmett Tompkins.
Tompkins was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio.
He served as recorder of McConnelsville in 1840.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Morgan County from 1848 to 1851.
Street commissioner of McConnelsville in 1850.
He served as member of the Republican State convention in 1855.
Congress
Tompkins was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1861).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Thirty-sixth Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1860.
Later life and death
Tompkins resumed the practice of law and died in McConnelsville, Ohio, July 23, 1862.
He was interred in McConnelsville Cemetery.
