https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql Made with serendipity en-us 2019-02-07 13:54:28 UTC 2025-06-14 16:13:02 UTC hello@padlet.com kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328724273 Born on September 5, 1856, on a plantation in Columbia County (the area today is part of McDuffie County), Edward Thomas Watson (later Thomas Edward Watson) understood the culture of the antebellum South.]]> 2019-02-07 13:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328724273 kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328724867 2019-02-07 13:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328724867 kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328725156 Although Watson quickly became one of the foremost trial lawyers in Georgia, he was drawn to local politics. Early in his legal career Watson had been influenced by many of the leaders of the Confederacy, including his boyhood heroes Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens.]]> 2019-02-07 13:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328725156 kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328726809 Watson temporarily withdrew from politics at this point and resumed his law practice in Thomson. Though he would reemerge to run for president as a Populist in 1904 and 1908, neither he nor the much-diminished party ever posed a serious threat to the Democrats or Republicans.]]> 2019-02-07 13:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328726809 kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328728064 Soon after the turn of the century, Watson turned to writing at his newly acquired Hickory Hill estate on the outskirts of Thomson. He wrote a two-volume history of France (1899), followed by a novel, Bethany: A Story of the Old South (1904), and biographies of Napoleon (1902), Thomas Jefferson (1903), and Andrew Jackson (1912). Through his Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Watson also produced a magazine and a weekly newspaper that achieved widespread circulation throughout the South and in New York. ]]> 2019-02-07 14:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328728064 kelvinlat497 https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328731858 2019-02-07 14:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kelvinlat497/7zgxth6izsql/wish/328731858