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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaAnthony WAYNE
(1745-1796)
WAYNE, Anthony, (father of
Isaac Wayne), a Representative from Georgia; born in East Town,
Chester County, Pa., January 1, 1745; attended Philadelphia
Academy; became a land surveyor and was employed for a time in Nova
Scotia; returned to Chester County, Pa.; member of the provincial
house of representatives in 1774 and 1775; served in the
Revolutionary Army as colonel of the Fourth Regiment of
Pennsylvania troops; commissioned as brigadier general February 21,
1777; brevetted major general October 10, 1783; elected to the
Pennsylvania Assembly in 1784; moved to Georgia and settled upon a
tract of land granted him by that State for his military service;
delegate to the State convention which ratified the Constitution of
the United States in 1788; presented credentials as a Member-elect
to the Second Congress and served from March 4, 1791, to March 21,
1792, when the seat was declared vacant; declined to be a candidate
for reelection in 1792; again entered the service of the United
States Army, as major general and General in Chief of the Army;
concluded a treaty August 3, 1795, with the Indians northwest of
the Ohio River; died in Presque Isle (now Erie), Pa., December 15,
1796; remains were moved in 1809 and interred in St. David’s
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
Bibliography
Wildes, Harry E. Anthony Wayne, Trouble Shooter of the American
Revolution. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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