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After passing the state Bar in 1876, Thomas E. Watson returned to Thomson and lived in this house with his family from 1881 to 1900. In his first-floor office he began his law and writing career and entered politics. He served in the Georgia House in 1882, the U.S. Congress from 1890 to 1892, and the U.S. Senate from 1920 to 1922. In 1896 he was nominated for Vice President on the Populist Party ticket with William Jennings Bryan. Here he authored the two-volume Story of France and a biography of Napoleon. In a career often marked by controversy, he was best known as the Father of Rural Free Delivery.
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