Honorable Thomas Manson Norwood
Contributed by Eugenia Hobday
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NORWOOD, Thomas Manson, a Senator and a Representative from Georgia; born in Talbot County, Ga., April 26, 1830;
son of Caleb and Jeannette (Mason) Norwood, husband of Anna Maria Hendree, pursued an academic course; graduated
with an A.B. degree from Emory College in 1850. from Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1850; studied law; taught
school in Monroe county, Ga., 1850-51; admitted to the bar in 1852 and established a law office in Savannah,
Ga. He was married, June 2, 1853, to Anna M., daughter of George Hendree, of Richmond, Va. He represented his
county in the State House of Representatives, 1861-62; served as a private in the Confederate army, 1861-65;
was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Seymour and Blair in 1868. He was elected to the Senate
as a Democrat and served from November 14, 1871, to March 3, 1877. He resumed the practice of law in Savannah,
Ga. He was the candidate of one of the two factions of the Democratic party for governor of Georgia in 1880,
but was defeated in the election by Governor Colquitt, re-elected. He was representative in the 49th and 50th
congresses from the first district of Georgia, 1885-89, and retired from the practice of law in 1896, upon being
elected judge of the city court of Savannah in 1896 and served twelve years; retired to his country home,
"Harrock Hall," La Roche Ave., Isle of Hope near Savannah, Ga., and died there June 19, 1913, interment in
Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. He is the author of: Plutocracy, or American White Slavery, a politico-social
novel (1888); Mother Goose Carved by a Commentator (1900); Patriotism, Democracy or Empire: A Satire (1900), and,
under the pen-name Nemesis, of a series of articles in 1870. (Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904) He is
listed in Who's Who in America. [Paper from Vault of the GDAH - Congressional Directory, pg. 1623]
Bibliography
Bragg, William Harris. "The Junius of Georgia Redemption: Thomas M. Norwood and the 'Nemesis' Letters."
Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (Spring 1993): 86-122; Norwood, Thomas M. A True Vindication of the South,
in a Review of American History. Savannah: Braid & Hutton, 1917.
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