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Alabama Governor Thomas Hill Watts (496 words) |
 | Thomas Hill Watts was born in the Alabama Territory on January 3, 1819, the oldest of twelve children born to John Hughes Watts and Prudence Hill who had moved from Georgia to find the better lands of the frontier. |
| Politically, Watts adopted a pro-Union stance during the 1850s, but subsequent developments made the depth of his beliefs questionable, for on the eve of the Civil War he played an important role in the secession of Alabama, and was one of the signers of the secession ordinance. |
| In 1863 Watts was elected governor of Alabama. |
| Thomas H. Watts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (195 words) |
| Thomas Hill Watts (January 3, 1819–September 16, 1892) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1863 to 1865, during the Civil War. |
| Thomas H. Watts also served as Attorney General of the Confederate States of America from 1862 to 1863. |
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