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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaThomas Edward WATSON
(1856-1922)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1922Party: DemocratWATSON, Thomas Edward, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Columbia County,
near Thomson, Ga., September 5, 1856; attended the common schools
and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; taught school; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Thomson,
McDuffie County, Ga., in 1876; also engaged in agricultural
pursuits; member, State house of representatives 1882-1883;
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1888; elected as a
Populist to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3,
1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the
Fifty-third Congress and in 1894 for election to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Thomson, Ga.; nominated
for Vice President by the Populist National Convention in 1896 and
for President by the People’s Party in 1904; published a
magazine for many years and later engaged in the newspaper
business; author; unsuccessful candidate for the United States
House of Representatives in 1918; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1921, until his death
in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1922; interment in Thomson
Cemetery, Thomson, Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Crowe, Charles. “Tom
Watson, Populists, and Blacks Reconsidered.” Journal of
Negro History 55 (April 1970): 99-116; Woodward, C. Vann.
Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel. 1938. 2d ed. Savannah, GA:
Beehive Press, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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