Thomas M. Norwood

Thomas Manson Norwood
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 1st district
In office March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889
Preceded by	John C. Nicholls
Succeeded by	James W. Overstreet
United States Senator from Georgia
In office November 14, 1871 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by	Homer V. M. Miller
Succeeded by	Benjamin H. Hill
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
In office 1851–1862
Personal details
Born	April 26, 1830 Talbot County, Georgia
Died	June 19, 1913 (aged 83) Savannah, Georgia
Political party	Democratic

Thomas Manson Norwood (April 26, 1830 – June 19, 1913) was a United States Senator and Representative from Georgia. Born in Talbot County, Georgia, he pursued an academic course, and graduated from Emory College in 1850. He studied law under Georgia governor James Milton Smith,^[1] and was admitted to the bar in 1852, commencing practice in Savannah. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1861 to 1862 and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1868. He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and served from November 14, 1871, to March 3, 1877. He was a staunch critic of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.^[2] He resumed the practice of law in Savannah, and was elected as a Representative to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth U.S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1889. He again resumed the practice of law, and was appointed judge of the city court of Savannah in 1896, serving twelve years. He returned to his country home, Harroch Hall, near Savannah, and died there in June 1913. Interment was in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah. His posthumously published book A True Vindication of the South argued that the South had been justified in its fight against the North.

References

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XIII. New York: James T. White & Company. 1906. p. 474. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
2. Bank, Steven A. (January 1, 1995). "Anti-Miscegenation Laws and the Dilemma of Symmetry: The Understanding of Equality in the Civil Rights Act of 1875". 2 (1). Retrieved 23 July 2016.

• United States Congress. "Thomas M. Norwood (id: N000160)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Works

• A true vindication of the South, in a review of American political history Savannah, Ga., Braid and Hutton 1917.
• Norwood, Thomas M. Mother Goose carved by a commentator. Savannah: Morning News, 1900.

External links

• Works by or about Thomas M. Norwood at Internet Archive