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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaDuncan Lamont CLINCH
(1787-1849)
CLINCH, Duncan Lamont, a
Representative from Georgia; born at “Ard-Lamont,”
Edgecombe County, N.C., April 6, 1787; entered the United States
Army as first lieutenant of the Third Infantry July 1, 1808;
promoted to captain December 31, 1810; appointed lieutenant colonel
of the Forty-Third Regiment, United States Infantry, August 4,
1813; appointed colonel of the Eighth Regiment, United States
Infantry, April 20, 1819; attained the rank of brigadier general
April 20, 1829; commanded at the Battle of Ouithlacoochee against
the Seminole Indians December 31, 1835; resigned September 21,
1836, and settled on a plantation near St. Marys, Ga.; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John Millen and served from February 15, 1844, to
March 3, 1845; died in Macon, Ga., November 27, 1849; interment in
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
Bibliography
Patrick, Rembert Wallace. Aristocrat in Uniform, General Duncan
L. Clinch. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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