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Thomas M. Norwood

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(April 26, 1830 — June 19, 1913) Thomas Manson Norwood was a lawyer, judge, and politician. Norwood was born in Talbot County, Georgia in 1830. He graduated from Emory College, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. Norwood served in the State House of Representatives (1861-1862), and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served during the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses from 1871 to 1877. He was again elected to Congress, this time to the United States House of Representatives, and served from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. After his service in Congress, Norwood was a judge of the city court in Savannah from 1896 to 1908. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000160]

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