Wade Keyes
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Wade Keyes was a lawyer, scholar, judge and professor from Alabama who served as the first and only Assistant Attorney General of the Confederacy, 1861–1865. After the Civil War he practiced law in Fl
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Thomas H. Watts
Thomas H. Watts
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Thomas Hill Watts Sr. was an American lawyer, slaveowner, Confederate States Attorney General and the 18th governor of Alabama from 1863 to 1865, during the Civil War.
Wade Keyes
…as acting attorney general until Thomas Bragg officially took office November 21, 1861. Bragg held the office until March 18, 1862, when succeeded by Thomas H. Watts. When Watts was elected governor of Alabama, he resigned, and Keyes served as acting attorney general from October 1, 1863, until January 2, 1864, when…
Engraved portrait of Thomas H. Watts
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