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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaThomas Petters CARNES
(1762-1822)
CARNES, Thomas Petters, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Maryland in 1762; completed
preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and
practiced in Milledgeville, Ga.; member of the State house of
representatives 1786, 1787, 1789, and 1797; solicitor general for
the western circuit of Georgia; attorney general of Georgia from
December 1789 until December 1792, when he resigned; elected as an
Anti-Administration candidate to the Third Congress (March 4,
1793-March 3, 1795); resumed the practice of law; judge of the
western circuit court of Georgia from January 1798 until May 1803,
when he resigned, and from December 1809 to November 1810; member
of the State constitutional convention in 1798; appointed one of
the commissioners to settle the boundary disputes between the
States of Georgia and North Carolina in 1806; again a member of the
State house of representatives in 1807 and 1808; died on his farm
in Franklin (now Hart) County, Ga., May 5, 1822; interment in the
garden on his estate.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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