Thomas Hill Watts (3 January 1819-16 September 1892) was the Democratic Governor of Alabama from 1 December 1863 to 1 May 1865, succeeding John Gill Shorter and preceding Lewis E. Parsons.
Biography[]
Thomas Hill Watts was born in Pine Flat, Alabama in 1819, and he became a lawyer in Greenville. He came to enslave 179 African-Americans by 1860, and, while he was a unionist until the eve of the American Civil War, he commanded the 17th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the Siege of Corinth and served as Attorney General of the Confederacy from 1862 to 1863, succeeding Thomas Bragg and preceding Wade Keyes. He served as Governor from 1863 to 1865 and was arrested by Union troops at Union Springs in May 1865. He died in Montgomery in 1892.