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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaCharles TAIT
(1768-1835)
Senate Years of Service:
1809-1819Party: Democratic
RepublicanTAIT, Charles, a Senator
from Georgia; born near the present town of Hanover, Hanover
County, Va., February 1, 1768; moved to Georgia in 1783 with his
parents, who settled near Petersburg; completed preparatory
studies; attended Wilkes Academy, Washington, Ga., 1786-1787, and
Cokesbury College, Abingdon, Md., 1788; professor of French in
Cokesburg College 1789-1794; studied law while teaching and was
admitted to the Georgia bar in 1795; rector and professor at
Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga., 1795-1798; commenced the practice
of law in Elbert County in 1798; presiding judge of the western
circuit court of Georgia 1803-1809; elected as a Democratic
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of John Milledge; was reelected in 1813 and
served from November 27, 1809, to March 3, 1819; chairman,
Committee on Naval Affairs (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses);
moved to Wilcox County, Ala., in 1819; appointed by President James
Monroe as United States district judge for Alabama 1820-1826, when
he resigned; engaged as a planter near Claiborne, Ala.; declined a
mission to Great Britain in 1828; died near Claiborne, Ala.,
October 7, 1835; interment in Dry Forks Cemetery on his country
estate, Wilcox County, Ala.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine.
“Charles Tait.” In Senators From Georgia. pp.
66-69. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976; Moffatt, Charles
H. The Life of Charles Tait. Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt
University, 1946.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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