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(Most Spanish place names in Georgia date from the 19th century, not from the age of colonization.) Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732. Oglethorpe envisioned the new colony as a refuge for the debtors who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among the initial settlers.
1827 - Library Society founded. [1] 1828 Medical Academy of Georgia founded. [1] Unitarian church built. [6] 1829 - April 3: Fire. [7] 1830 - Population: 6,710. [9] 1833 - Charleston-Augusta railway begins operating. 1836 - Broad Street fire. [6] 1837 Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Berzelia) begins operating. [1] Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel ...
Button Gwinnett (/ ɡ w ɪ ˈ n ɛ t / gwin-ET; March 3, 1735 – May 19, 1777) was a British-born American Founding Father who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was one of the signers (first signature on the left) of the United States Declaration of Independence. [1]
Named during the tail-end of the colonial era for the Cadiz Constitution, not the later Constitution of Mexico. The Constitution was signed in March 1812, but it was not promulgated immediately throughout the empire. In New Spain, Viceroy Francisco Javier Venegas allowed the Constitution to be published on 19 September 1812.
Until 1964, Georgia's state government had the longest unbroken record of single-party dominance, by the Democratic Party, of any state in the Union. This record was established largely due to the disenfranchisement of most blacks and many poor whites by the state in its constitution and laws in the early 20th century. Some elements, such as ...
One of the oldest Georgian parties, actively involved in national movement of the late Soviet period, seeking to secure Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. The party's then-nationalistic and theocratic views have been replaced by more christian democratic positions. Victorious Georgia: Militarism: 2019
State delegation to the United States House of Representatives For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. Darker shading indicates confirmed partisan affiliation or majority; lighter shading indicates likely, but unconfirmed, partisan affiliation or majority.
The new state of Georgia was a member of the Second Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the tenth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24, 1778, [18] and the fourth state to be admitted to the Union under the U.S. Constitution, on January 2, 1788.