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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
by Assembly Lyman Hall1783 John Houstoun1784 Samuel Elbert1785 Edward Telfair1786 George Matthews1787 George Handley1788 Under the federal Constitution NameRemarks George Walton1789-90 Edward Telfair1790-93 George Matthews1793-96 Jared Irwin1796-98 James Jackson1798-1801 David Emanuel1801 Josiah Tattnall1801-2 John Milledge1802-6 Jared Irwin1806-9 David B. Mitchell1809-13 Peter Early1813-15 David B. Mitchell1815-17 William Rabun1817-19 Matthew Talbot, acting1819 John ClJared Irwin1806-9 David B. Mitchell1809-13 Peter Early1813-15 David B. Mitchell1815-17 William Rabun1817-19 Matthew Talbot, acting1819 John Clark1819-23 George M. Troup1823-27 John Forsyth1827-29 George R. Gilmer1829-31 Wilson Lumpkin1831-35 William Schley1835-37 George R. Gilmer1837-39 Charles J. McDonald1839-43 George W. Crawford1843-47 George W. B. Towns1847-51 Howell Cobb1851-53 Herschel V. Johnson1853-57 Joseph E. Brown1857-65 James Johnson1865 Charles J. Jenkins1865-67 Gen. T. H. Ruger1867-68 Rufus B. Bullock1868-72 James Milton Smith1872-77 Alfred H. Colquitt1877-82 Alexander H. Stephens1882-83 Henry D. McD
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irwin, Jared 1750-1818 (search)
Irwin, Jared 1750-1818 Legislator; born in Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving. Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1750; removed to Georgia, and served throughout the Revolutionary War; was a member of the State constitutional conventions of 1789, 1795, and 1798; and was elected governor of the State in 1796 and 1806. He died in Union, Ga., March 1, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
Whitney, of Connecticut, while residing in Georgia, invents the cotton-gin......May 27, 1793 General Clarke, claiming that by the treaty of 1790 certain lands on the south side of the Oconee River had been improperly ceded to the Creeks by the United States, takes possession, defying Georgia and United States, but is driven out......Oct. 12, 1794 Seat of government removed from Augusta to Louisville, now county seat of Jefferson county......May 16, 1795 Rescinding act signed by Governor Irwin, who was elected the previous month......Feb. 13, 1796 United States grants to Georgia preemption rights to lands obtained by joint treaty made with the Creek Indians by United States and Georgia in previous. year......March, 1797 Mississippi Territory set off from Georgia by act of Congress......April 7, 1798 Revised constitution signed by delegates at Louisville, proclaimed by sixteen rounds of artillery......May 30, 1798 Senatus Academicus of University of Georgia first