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      <title>Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922) by Jamarcus Price</title>
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         <title>The video of Thomas. E. Watson</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920), where he served for only a short time before his death. Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he achieved national recognition for his egalitarian, agrarian agenda. Although his terms of elective office were short, for more than thirty years his sup]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[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. He was the second of seven children of Ann Eliza Maddox and John Smith Watson, both descendants of Quakers.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[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. During an era in which northern influences for capitalism over agrarianism were challenging regional traditions, Watson emerged as a voice for the agrarian tradition. He appealed to Georgians as a defender of the old way of life when he was first elected to the state legislature, representing McDuffie County, in 1882. Watson discovered that the support of the black voting population was necessary to win]]></description>
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         <title>The Farmers&#39; Alliance and Populism</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div> the New South emerged from the chaos of Reconstruction, so did discontent among farmers throughout the region. The Farmers' Alliance organized to voice this resentment, <br>In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by Thomas E. Watson of McDuffie County, this new party mainly appealed to white farmers, many of whom had been impoverished by debt and low cotton prices in the 1880s and 1890s. The Populists also attempted to win the support of black farmers away from the Republican Party.<br>Thomas E. Watson<br>and it was within that organization that Watson became a powerful leader, although he never formally joined the alliance.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[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)]]></description>
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