Hoke Smith
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Michael Hoke Smith was an American attorney, politician, and newspaper owner who served as United States secretary of the interior, 58th governor of Georgia, and a United States senator from Georgia.
Smith in 1912
As Secretary of the Interior, Smith was responsible for implementing Grover Cleveland's reform of the Grand Army of the Republic's pension program.
Smith c. 1913
Thomas E. Watson
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Thomas Edward Watson was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agr
Hoke Smith
…which still stands) and was re-elected to the Atlanta Board of Education. Smith allied himself with Bryan's vice presidential candidate, Populist Tom Watson, one of Georgia's most influential politicians. With Watson's support, he embraced Black disfranchisement calling the races "different, radically…
Watson c. 1920s
Portrait by C. M. Bell c. 1891–1893
Watson's visage on a 1904 People's Party campaign poster.
Statue of Thomas E. Watson in Atlanta