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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilson LUMPKIN
(1783-1870)
Senate Years of Service:
1837-1841Party: DemocratLUMPKIN, Wilson, (uncle of
John Henry Lumpkin and grandfather of Middleton Pope Barrow), a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born near Dan River,
Pittsylvania County, Va., January 14, 1783; moved in 1784 to
Oglethorpe (then a part of Wilkes) County, Ga., with his parents,
who settled near Point Peter, and subsequently at Lexington, Ga.;
attended the common schools; taught school and farmed; studied law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Athens, Ga.; member,
State house of representatives 1804-1812; elected to the Fourteenth
Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); unsuccessful for
reelection; State Indian Commissioner; elected to the Twentieth,
Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses and served from March 4,
1827, until his resignation in 1831 before the convening of the
Twenty-second Congress to run for the governorship; commissioner on
the Georgia-Florida boundary line commission; Governor of Georgia
1831-1835; appointed commissioner under the Cherokee treaty in
1835; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of John P. King and served from November
22, 1837, to March 3, 1841; chairman, Committee on Manufactures
(Twenty-sixth Congress); member of the State board of public works;
died in Athens, Ga., December 28, 1870; interment in Oconee
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; McPherson, Robert G.
“Wilson Lumpkin.” In Georgians in Profile,
edited by Horace Montgomery, pp. 144-67. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1958; Mellichamp, Josephine. ”Wilson
Lumpkin.” In Senators From Georgia. pp. 113-18.
Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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