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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWiley THOMPSON
(1781-1835)
THOMPSON, Wiley, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Amelia County, Va., September
23, 1781; moved to Elberton, Elbert County, Ga.; served as a
commissioner of the Elbert County Academy in 1808; served in the
State senate 1817-1819; was appointed major general of the Fourth
Division of the Georgia Militia in November 1817 and served until
November 1824, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the
Seventeenth Congress; reelected as a Crawford Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress; and elected as a Jacksonian in the Nineteenth
through the Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1833);
was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1833;
agent to Seminole Indians; appointed in 1834 to superintend the
removal of Seminoles from Florida; killed by band of Seminoles led
by Osceola at Fort King, Fla., on December 28, 1835; interment in
the private burial ground on his estate at Elberton, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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