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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaDavid MERIWETHER
(1755-1822)
MERIWETHER, David, (father
of James Meriwether), a Representative from Georgia; born at Clover
Field, near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., April 10, 1755;
completed preparatory studies; during the Revolutionary War was a
lieutenant and served in New Jersey, and afterward with Virginia
troops at the last siege of Savannah, Ga.; settled in Wilkes
County, Ga., in 1785; commissioned brigadier general of State
militia September 21, 1797; member of the State house of
representatives and served as speaker 1797-1800; elected as a
Republican to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Benjamin Taliaferro; reelected to the Eighth and
Ninth Congresses and served from December 6, 1802, to March 3,
1807; was not a candidate for reelection and retired to his
plantation near Athens, Ga.; appointed a commissioner to the Creek
Indians in 1804 and repeatedly reappointed to treat with other
tribes; died near Athens, Ga., November 16, 1822; interment in the
private burial ground on his plantation.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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