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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Crosby DAWSON
(1798-1856)
Senate Years of Service:
1849-1855Party: WhigDAWSON, William Crosby, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Greensboro,
Greene County, Ga., January 4, 1798; attended the common schools;
graduated from Franklin College, Athens, Ga., in 1816; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Greensboro,
Ga.; member, State house of representatives; elected as a State
Rights candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John Coffee; reelected as a Whig to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses and
served from November 7, 1836, to November 13, 1841, when he
resigned; chairman, Committee on Mileage (Twenty-fifth Congress),
Committee on Claims (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military
Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
Governor of Georgia in 1841; judge of the Ocmulgee circuit court
1845; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855; chairman, Committee on Private
Land Claims (Thirty-second Congress); presided over the Southern
convention at Memphis in 1853; died in Greensboro, Ga., on May 5,
1856; interment in Greensboro Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine. “William Dawson.”
In Senators From Georgia, pp. 127-30. Huntsville, Ala.:
Strode Publishers, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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