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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts abstract "Cornelius Clarkson Watts (1848–1930), or C. C. Watts, was United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia and Attorney General of West Virginia. In 1896, he was the Democratic party candidate for Governor of West Virginia. He was born April 23, 1848 at Amherst, Virginia. His parents, James D. and Lucy A. (Simms) Watts, lived in Amherst until the beginning of the Civil War, when they removed to Albemarle County, Virginia. At 16, he entered the Confederate Army and served as a private soldier in Mosby's Command. After the war, he studied law and was educated at the University of Virginia. In 1870, he moved to West Virginia and began the practice of his profession at Oceana, West Virginia. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Wyoming County, West Virginia in 1872, and held the office until 1875. In that year he moved to Charleston and became a member of the law firm of Kenna & Watts.He was nominated and elected by the Democratic party, in 1880, as Attorney General for West Virginia, and served his term of four years. While Attorney General, he argued many important cases for the State, and with Maj. 0. D. Cook, his faithful assistant, got out nine volumes of Supreme Court reports. He argued the tax case of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Miller, 114 U.S. 176 (1885) on March 22, 1885, in the Supreme Court of the United States. In that case, he served as Attorney for the State under the employment and appointment of Governor Jacob B. Jackson, after his term of office as Attorney General had expired. In this litigation the State was successful, and besides gaining for itself and the counties through which the road runs, some $200,000, it established the right to forever tax, not only this railway, but all railroads now or hereafter to be built in West Virginia.In August 1886, President Grover Cleveland sent his name to the United States Senate to be Attorney of the United States for the District of West Virginia. The appointment was confirmed on August 3, 1886, for the term of four years. However, after the election of 1888, which resulted in Mr. Cleveland's defeat, General Watts began such a vigorous prosecution of what are known as the "Election Fraud Cases," that on March 9, 1889, Attorney General William H. H. Miller, by direction of President Benjamin Harrison, telegraphed General Watts requesting his resignation. Whereupon he immediately replied by telegram: "Your telegram of this date, by direction of the President, requesting my resignation of the office of United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia, has been received. I know of no act of mine, either official or otherwise, which, in the absence of cause being assigned, would, under existing circumstances, justify me in tendering my resignation. I therefore respectfully decline to make such resignation. If the President wants me to vacate the office of United States Attorney, without cause being assigned therefore, let him assert his prerogative."On April 4, 1889, he was notified by the President of his removal. In 1891-1894 he served as a member of West Virginia State Senate from the 9th District. He was the Democratic party candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1896, defeated by Republican party candidate George W. Atkinson. He died in Charleston on May 28, 1930, and was interred at Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston. His home, Breezemont, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.".
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts birthPlace Amherst,_Virginia.
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts deathDate "1930-05-28".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts deathPlace Charleston,_West_Virginia.
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts successor Alfred_Caldwell_(US-politician).
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts wikiPageWikiLinkText "General Cornelius Clarkson Watts".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts after Alfred_Caldwell_(US-politician).
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts birthDate "1848-04-23".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts birthPlace Amherst,_Virginia.
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts dateOfBirth "1848-04-23".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts dateOfDeath "1930-05-28".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts deathDate "1930-05-28".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts deathPlace Charleston,_West_Virginia.
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts office "Attorney General of West Virginia".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts order "9".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts placeOfBirth Amherst,_Virginia.
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts placeOfDeath Charleston,_West_Virginia.
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts predecessor Robert_White_(attorney_general).
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- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts successor Alfred_Caldwell_(US-politician).
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts termEnd "1885".
- Cornelius_Clarkson_Watts termStart "1881".
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