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What was Tom Watson’s role in the establishment of rural free delivery?

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He drafted the Rural Free Delivery act and pushed it through Congress

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Rural Free Delivery (RFD), legislation that Watson pushed through Congress in 1893, eliminated the need for individuals living in more remote homesteads to pick up mail, sometimes at distant post offices, or to pay private carriers for delivery.

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