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William Leigh Pierce (1753 – December 10, 1789) was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer during the Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, merchant, and planter and slave owner.
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William Houstoun (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən; also spelled Houston; c. 1755 – March 17, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, statesman, and lawyer.He served the Province of Georgia as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later the State of Georgia to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Edward Telfair (1735 – September 17, 1807) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, politician and slave trader who served as the governor of Georgia from 1786 to 1787 and again from 1790 to 1793.
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
January 7 – John Catron, lawyer and jurist (died 1865) January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (died 1844) January 24 – Walter Forward, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (died 1852)
William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist.He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
He was Attorney General of Georgia from 1785 to 1786. [3] He was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which drafted the United States Constitution , but did not attend. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] He was elected to the Congress of the Confederation ( Continental Congress ) in 1789, but did not attend.