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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaPeter EARLY
(1773-1817)
EARLY, Peter, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Madison, Madison County,
Va., June 20, 1773; attended the Lexington Academy (later
Washington College) in Rockbridge County; was graduated from
Princeton College in 1792; studied law in Philadelphia, Pa.; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Wilkes County, Ga.,
in 1796; moved to Greene County in 1801 and continued the practice
of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of John Milledge; reelected to
the Eighth and Ninth Congresses and served from January 10, 1803,
to March 3, 1807; one of the managers appointed by the House of
Representatives in January 1804 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United States
District Court for New Hampshire, and in December of the same year
against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; declined to be a candidate for reelection; first
judge of the superior court of the Ocmulgee circuit 1807-1813;
Governor of Georgia 1813-1815; elected to the State senate in 1815
and served until his death near Scull Shoals, Greene County, Ga.,
August 15, 1817; interment on the west bank of the Oconee River
near his mansion; reinterment in City Cemetery, Greensboro, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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