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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaThomas SPALDING
(1774-1851)
SPALDING, Thomas, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Frederica, St. Simons Island,
Glynn County, Ga., March 26, 1774; attended the common schools of
Georgia and Florida and a private school in Massachusetts; studied
law; was admitted to the bar about 1790, but did not practice;
engaged extensively in agricultural pursuits; member of the State
house of representatives in 1794; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1798; moved to McIntosh County, Ga.,
in 1803; served in the State senate; successfully contested as a
Republican the election of Cowles Mead to the Ninth Congress and
served from December 24, 1805, until his resignation in 1806;
trustee of the McIntosh County Academy in 1807; one of the founders
of the Bank of Darien and of the branch in Milledgeville, Ga., and
president for many years; engaged in the planting of sea-island
cotton, residing on Sapelo Island, Ga.; commissioner on the part of
the State of Georgia to determine the boundary line between Georgia
and the Territory of Florida in 1826; commissioner from the Federal
Government to Bermuda to negotiate relative to property taken or
destroyed in the South by the British in the War of 1812; president
of the convention at Milledgeville, Ga., in 1850 which resolved
that the State of Georgia would resist any act of Congress
abolishing slavery and died, while en route home, at the residence
of his son, near Darien, Ga., January 5, 1851; interment in St.
Andrew’s Cemetery.
Bibliography
Coulter, E. Merton. Thomas Spalding of Sapelo. University,
La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1940.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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