Thomas E. Watson collection, 1906-1923.

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Thomas E. Watson collection, 1906-1923.

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This collection consists of correspondence, editorials and articles by Thomas E. Watson, financial records, clippings, and collected materials. Correspondence includes letters from Watson to his campaign manager which discuss Watson's view on Charles Crisp, U.S. Representative from the 3rd Congressional District, and particularly his stand on the Leo Frank case. The collection also includes a typescript of an editorial by Watson dated February 13, 1913 which discusses the Commissioner of Agriculture. The collection also contains photocopies of correspondence, financial documents, writings by Watson, clippings, and collected material purchased from the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Historical Society which retained the original items. These materials relate generally to Watson's real estate interests, Las Olas by the Sea, in Florida, and date from 1907 to 1920. The main recipient of Watson's letters was Frank Stranahan. Also included are financial documents relating to this real estate from or to Georgia Watson.

.5 linear ft. : (2 boxes)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Frank, Leo, 1884-1915

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Leo Frank, a Jewish Atlanta businessman and Superintendent and Vice President of the National Pencil Factory, Atlanta, Georgia, was born 17 April 1884, in Paris, Texas, and died 17 August 1915, in Marietta, Georgia. Frank was sentenced to death by hanging (1913) for the murder of Mary Phagan, an employee he supervised at the National Pencil Factory. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment (July 1915) because of doubt by some trial officials as to his guilt. Frank was abducted by a mob (Au...

Crisp, Charles Robert, 1870-1937.

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Stranahan, Frank, 1864-1929

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Gordy, James J.

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Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922

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Thomas Edward Watson was born in Columbia County near Thomson, Georgia on September 5, 1856. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and during that time taught school for two years before he was admitted to the bar in 1875. Watson began practicing law in Thomson, Georgia in 1876, where he was also a farmer. Watson began his political career by winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882, where he served for one term. In 1888, Watson was appointed the presidential el...