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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaGeorge Michael TROUP
(1780-1856)
Senate Years of Service:
1816-1818; 1829-1833Party: Democratic Republican;
JacksonianTROUP, George Michael, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born at McIntosh Bluff,
on the Tombigbee River, Ala. (then a part of Georgia), September 8,
1780; received preliminary education at home and in the schools of
Savannah, Ga.; attended Erasmus Hall, Flatbush, N.Y., and graduated
from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1797;
studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Savannah, Ga., in 1799; member, State house of representatives
1803-1805; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Tenth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1815); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1814; retired to his plantation
in Laurens County; elected as a Democratic Republican to the United
States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1817; subsequently
elected to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1817,
caused by the resignation of William W. Bibb, and served from
November 13, 1816, until September 23, 1818, when he resigned;
chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Fifteenth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1819 and 1821; Governor of
Georgia 1823-1827; again elected to the United States Senate, as a
Jacksonian, and served from March 4, 1829, to November 8, 1833,
when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Twenty-second Congress); died while on a visit to one of his
plantations in Montgomery County, Ga., April 26, 1856; interment on
the Rosemont plantation, Montgomery County, Ga.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Fortune, Porter L. “George M. Troup: Leading
State Rights Advocate.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of
North Carolina, 1949; Harden, Edward. Life of George Michael
Troup. Savanah: E.J. Purse, 1859.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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