Thomas Walter Bickett
American politician (1869-1921)
Thomas Walter Bickett was an American Democratic Party politician who served as governor of North Carolina from 1917 to 1921. Bickett's tenure was notable for the passage of a wide range of progressive social reforms.[1] Negatively, however, his tenure also saw the passage of a law, as one study described it, "to prevent incurable mental defectives from perpetuating their species."[2]