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
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
Leo Frank
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Leo Max Frank was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial,
Thomas E. Watson
…opinion, especially in his native Georgia. In 1913 Watson played a prominent role through his newspaper in inflaming public opinion in the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory manager who was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old factory worker. When Frank was arrested in 1913, his…
Frank, c. 1910–1915
Mary Phagan
One of the two murder notes found near the body
Jim Conley as shown in the August 1915 issue of Watson's Magazine