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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaEugenius Aristides NISBET
(1803-1871)
NISBET, Eugenius
Aristides, (cousin of Mark Anthony Cooper), a Representative
from Georgia; born near Union Point, Greene County, Ga., December
7, 1803; completed preparatory studies; attended the Powellton
Academy, Hancock County, Ga., 1815-1817 and the University of South
Carolina at Columbia 1817-1819; was graduated from the University
of Georgia at Athens in 1821; was admitted to the bar by a special
act of the legislature before he was twenty-one and commenced the
practice of law in Madison, Morgan County, Ga., in 1824; member of
the State house of representatives 1827-1830; served in the State
senate 1830-1837; moved to Macon, Ga., in 1837 and resumed the
practice of law; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1836
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839, until
October 12, 1841, when he resigned; associate judge of the supreme
court of Georgia 1845-1853; member of the secession convention of
Georgia in January 1861 and was the author of the ordinance of
secession; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1861; died in
Macon, Bibb County, Ga., March 18, 1871; interment in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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