Theo Titus

Theodore Titus III (March 12, 1920 – August 16, 2008) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician. He served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He was the uncle of Dina Titus, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, then returned to Thomasville where he owned and operated the Titus Cadillac Company for twenty years. He then worked for the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (later reorganized as FEMA) for another twenty years.

Later years and family After "retiring", Titus took up an active pastime as a columnist for the Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Over the course of twenty years, from 1986 to 2006, he wrote an estimated 1000 columns on a number of subjects, but mostly about nature. Declining health forced him to suspend his writing, two years prior to his death. His daughter, Tamara Titus, edited a collection of his columns and published them as a book: An Outdoor Heritage-stories from a South Georgia Life.

On August 16, 2008, Titus died in Thomasville, Georgia after a long illness. His niece, Dina Titus, serves as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Nevada.

In 2018, a daughter, Twitty Titus, announced her intention to run for her father's former House seat. Twitty, a Democrat, sought to unseat the four-term incumbent, a Republican, but lost in the general election. A son, Theo Titus, IV earned a degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and worked for a time as a broadcast engineer at WXIA in Atlanta followed by "careers in multiple electronics industries and companies". He retired to Tallahassee, Florida, where he is a ham radio operator with the call sign K4MVL