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  2. List of members of the United States Congress who owned ...

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    De Witt Clinton: Democratic-Republican ... the slaveholder's rights and the expansion of slavery during his time in political office. ... George Cary: Ga. Nov. 30 ...

  3. 1992 United States presidential election in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The presidential contest in Georgia was the closest of any state that year, with Clinton winning 43.47% to 42.88% over Incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-TX) by a thin margin of 0.59%. This made it the first time that Georgia had voted Democratic since 1980, when it voted for Jimmy Carter, who was the former Governor

  4. Political party strength in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    George Clinton (DR) 1805 1806 John Milledge (DR) Jared Irwin (DR-J) [k] 1807 Robert Walker: George Jones (DR) 1808 John Hamil: William H. Crawford (DR) James Madison/ George Clinton (DR) 1809 John Forsyth (DR) 1810 David Brydie Mitchell (DR-J) Charles Tait (DR) 1811 Abner Hammond: Alexander M. Allen: 1812 Richard H. Wilde (DR) James Madison ...

  5. 1792 United States presidential election in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Georgia had lost one elector compared to the previous election in 1788-89. [1] Georgia cast four electoral votes for the Independent candidate and incumbent President George Washington, as he ran effectively unopposed. The electoral votes for Vice president were cast for Democratic-Republican George Clinton from New York.

  6. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Georgia is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery . The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so.

  7. Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocate

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    Leaders of Georgia’s oldest city voted Thursday to strip the name of a former U.S. vice president and vocal slavery The post Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocate appeared ...

  8. List of presidents of the United States who owned slaves

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    As president, Washington signed a 1789 renewal of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, which banned slavery north of the Ohio River. This was the first major restriction on the domestic expansion of slavery by the federal government in US history. See George Washington and slavery for more details. 3rd Thomas Jefferson: 200 [2] – 600 + [4] Yes (1801 ...

  9. A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder ...

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    “He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”