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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaRobert Augustus TOOMBS
(1810-1885)
Senate Years of Service:
1853-1855; 1855-1861Party: Whig; DemocratTOOMBS, Robert Augustus, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Wilkes County,
Ga., July 2, 1810; attended the University of Georgia at Athens and
graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1828; studied
law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Washington, Wilkes County, Ga.,
in 1830; commanded a company in the Creek War in 1836; member,
State house of representatives 1837-1840, 1841-1843; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1845-March 3, 1853); elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1852; reelected in 1858 and served from March 4,
1853, to February 4, 1861, when he withdrew; seat declared vacant
by Senate resolution on March 4, 1861; member of the State
sovereignty convention at Milledgeville, Ga., in 1861; during the
Civil War served in the Confederate Provisional Congress; Secretary
of State of the Confederate States; brigadier general in the
Confederate Army; in order to avoid arrest at the end of the Civil
War, fled to Havana and then to London; returned to his home in
Washington, Ga., in 1867; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1877; died in Washington, Ga., December 15, 1885;
interment in Rest Haven Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Phillips, Ulrich. The Life of Robert Toombs.
1913. Reprint. New York: B. Franklin, 1968; Thompson, William Y.
Robert Toombs of Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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