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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJohn FORSYTH
(1780-1841)
Senate Years of Service:
1818-1819; 1829-1834Party: Democratic Republican;
JacksonianFORSYTH, John, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Fredericksburg,
Va., October 22, 1780; graduated from the College of New Jersey
(now Princeton University) in 1799; moved to Augusta, Ga.; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice; elected
attorney general of Georgia in 1808; elected as a Democratic
Republican to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses,
and served from March 4, 1813, until his resignation, effective
November 23, 1818; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of State (Fifteenth Congress); elected to the United
States Senate as a Democratic Republican on November 7, 1818, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George M. Troup, and
served from November 23, 1818, to February 17, 1819, when he
resigned to accept a diplomatic appointment; Minister to Spain
1819-1823; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his resignation,
effective November 7, 1827; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); Governor of Georgia
1827-1829; again elected to the United States Senate as a
Jacksonian to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
Macpherson Berrien and served from November 9, 1829, to June 27,
1834, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman,
Committee on Commerce (Twenty-second Congress), Committee on
Foreign Relations (Twenty-second Congress), Committee on Finance
(Twenty-second Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President
Andrew Jackson; reappointed by President Martin Van Buren and
served from 1834 to 1841; died in Washington, D.C., October 21,
1841; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
Bibliography
United States. Congress. Senate. Tributes Delivered in Congress:
Wendell H. Ford, United States Senator, 1974-1998. Washington,
D.C.: GPO, 1998.; Duckett, Alvin L. John Forsyth: Political
Tactician. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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