In 1935, Tompkins began a career with American Airlines, the company for which he continued to work for more than 30 years.
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He worked for more than 30 years for American Airlines in Detroit and became a civic leader in the area, working to bring the Olympic Games to Detroit from the 1940s to the 1960s and founding the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament in 1965.
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