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WATTS, Thomas Hill, statesman, born in Butler county, Alabama, 3 January, 1819. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1840, and began the practice of law at Greenville, in his native county, in 1841. In 1842 he was elected to the legislature, and he was returned in 1844 and 1845. He removed to Montgomery county in 1847, and was in 1849 sent to the legislature from that district and in 1853 to the state senate. In 1861, with William Lo Yancey, he represented Montgomery county in the Secession convention. In the same year he went to the seat of war as colonel of the 17th Alabama regiment, remaining there until April, 1862, when he was called by Jefferson Davis to act as attorney-general in his cabinet. In 1863 he was elected governor of Alabama, and he held this post until the close of the civil war. He is active in the religious enterprises of the Baptist denomination, to which he belongs.
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