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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWalter Terry COLQUITT
(1799-1855)
Senate Years of Service:
1843-1848Party: DemocratCOLQUITT, Walter Terry,
(father of Alfred Holt Colquitt), a Representative and a Senator
from Georgia; born in Halifax County, Va., December 27, 1799; moved
with his parents to Mount Zion, Carroll County, Ga.; attended the
common schools and Princeton College; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Sparta, Hancock County, Ga.;
moved to Cowpens, Ga.; elected judge of the Chattahoochee circuit
in 1826 and reelected in 1829; was licensed a Methodist preacher in
1827; member, State senate 1834, 1837; elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1839, to July 21,
1840, when he resigned; elected as a Van Buren Democrat to the
Twenty-seventh Congress to fill in part vacancies caused by the
resignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, and Eugenius
A. Nisbet, and served from January 3, 1842, to March 3, 1843;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1843, until his resignation in February 1848; chairman,
Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-ninth Congress),
Committee on Patents and Patent Office (Twenty-ninth Congress);
member of the Nashville convention in 1850; died in Macon, Ga., May
7, 1855; interment in Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine.
“Walter Colquitt.” In Senators From Georgia. pp.
119-21. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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