Thomas Manson Norwood (26 April 1830-19 June 1913) was a Democratic US Senator from Georgia from 14 November 1871 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding Homer V.M. Miller and preceding Benjamin H. Hill) and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA 1) from 4 March 1885 to 3 March 1889 (succeeding John C. Nicholls and preceding James W. Overstreet).
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Thomas Manson Norwood was born in Talbot County, Georgia in 1830, and he became a lawyer in Savannah in 1852. He served in the State House from 1861 to 1862, as a Democratic presidential elector in 1868, in the US Senate from 1871 to 1877 (staunchly criticizing the Civil Rights Act of 1875), and in the US House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889, and he died in 1913.