Charles Emerson "Dink" Waters (November 25, 1910 – August 29, 1979) was an American politician who served in the

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Early life

Waters was born on November 25, 1910, in Ellijay, Georgia, the son of Emerson Franklin Waters and Sallie (Greer) Waters. He attended Ellijay High School in 1927 and the

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in 1929.

Political career

Waters, a fourth generation Republican, began his political career serving as a state delegate to the

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pledged to the Dewey–

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ticket. He served as mayor pro temp of Ellijay from 1950 to 1951. He would later attend the

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

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, and

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

Republican Conventions. Waters served two terms in the Georgia State Senate: from 1955 to 1956 and 1961–1962. He was elected to Georgia's 41st District, representing the ancestrally Republican Fannin and Pickens counties. In 1960, he was appointed head of the Senate Administrative Affairs Committee. On February 6, 1962, he introduced a bill alongside a fellow Senator Ed Perry that would raise county officials salaries in Fannin and

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counties. In 1964, he was initially the only uncommitted delegate in the Georgia delegation, but would later support Goldwater.

Personal life

He married his wife, Emma Lee Jordan, on May 15, 1937. Together they had two children: one son (Charles Jordan) and one daughter (Catherine). He died on August 29, 1979, aged 68.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waters, Charles Emerson 1910 births 1979 deaths Republican Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans People from Gilmer County, Georgia