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A fact from Quintus et Ultimus Watson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Quintus et Ultimus Watson was the acting governor of Texas for one day in 1915?

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The result was: promoted by Schwede66 talk 18:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Quintus et Ultimus Watson was the acting governor of Texas for one day in 1915?

Source: "Senator Watson Gets to Act as Governor a Day". El Paso Herald. January 9, 1915 – via University of North Texas Libraries.

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Created by Aquabluetesla (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Aquabluetesla (talk) 17:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: What's most interesting about this guy is his unusual name, which the article doesn't explain. Perhaps someone will figure it out when we run it. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking further at this, I find a source which comments on the name without really explaining it. It's The Strangest Names in American Political History and there are three of them. What a great triple hook they would have made.... Andrew🐉(talk) 21:13, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Latin his name is "Fifth and the Last". It would be interesting to see all three, though I’m not sure how it would be done. Aquabluetesla (talk) 02:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About the name

Andrew Davidson and Aquabluetesla, I did some further research, and it seems the name is a hearken to a previous legislator, Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, who was named so as the tenth and last child of his parents. I could not find if Watson had siblings, but if so it seems likely he was the fifth and last of them. Curbon7 (talk) 03:54, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a plausible theory but Find a Grave only shows him as one of four children. Maybe there was a baby that died young that made five. We need more evidence. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]