Charles Emerson Waters

Waters, a fourth generation Republican,^[2] began his political career serving as a state delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention pledged to the Dewey–Warren ticket.^[2] He served as mayor pro temp of Ellijay from 1950 to 1951.^[1] He would later attend the 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1964 Republican Conventions.^[3] Waters served two terms in the Georgia State Senate: from 1955 to 1956 and 1961–1962.^[1] 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.^[4] On February 6, 1962, he introduced a bill alongside a fellow Senator Ed Perry that would raise county officials salaries in Fannin and Evans counties.^[5] In 1964, he was initially the only uncommitted delegate in the Georgia delegation, but would later support Goldwater.^[3][6][7][8]

He married his wife, Emma Lee Jordan, on May 15, 1937.^[1] Together they had two children: one son (Charles Jordan) and one daughter (Catherine).^[1][9] He died on August 29, 1979, aged 68.