Joint Resolution of the Georgia Georgia Assembly

March 27, 1941

CONGRESS REQUESTED TO AUTHORIZE

STAMP HONORING THOMAS E. WATSON.

 

No. 42.

 

A RESOLUTION.

To memorialize the national Congress to authorize and direct the Postmaster General of the United States to have printed and issued a stamp bearing the likeness of Thomas E. Watson; and for other purposes.

Whereas the late Honorable Thomas E. Watson, teacher, lawyer, poet, statesman, author and publisher was one of the most illustrious sons of Georgia; and

Whereas he was the author of the first resolution ever passed providing for the free delivery or rural mail; and

Whereas through his earnest, sincere and vigorous championship of the rights of the poor and oppressed he endeared himself to generations of Georgians and his name is still proclaimed in this State as the outstanding statesman of his time and generation; and

Whereas as author of the "The Story of France," "Napoleon: A sketch of his Life" and various other works and biographies he firmly established himself as preeminent in the field of history and letters.

Now, therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the national Congress be and is hereby petitioned to enact appropriate bills or resolutions authorizing and directing the Postmaster General of the United States, to design, have printed and issued a stamp bearing the likeness of Thomas E. Watson, the matchless orator and "The Sage of McDuffie."

Source: Ga. Laws 1941, p. 1846.

(c) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia

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