High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Morris Thompson (September 11, 1939 - January 31, 2000) was an Alaska Native leader, American businessman and political appointee working on matters vital to Alaska Natives. An Athabascan Native American born in Tanana, Alaska, United States to Warren H. and Alice (Grant) Thompson, Thompson graduated from Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka and attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a civil engineering major. "Morrie" married Thelma Mayo of Rampart on October 5, 1963 in Tanana, then obtained a job at RCA's Gilmore Creek Satellite Tracking Station near Fairbanks in 1964 after attending an RCA electrical technician school in Los Angeles, California.