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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJames Moore WAYNE
(1790-1867)
WAYNE, James Moore, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., in 1790;
completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Princeton
College in 1808; studied law in New Haven, Conn.; was admitted to
the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Savannah, Ga.; entered
the military service during the War of 1812, and served as an
officer in the Georgia Hussars; member of the State house of
representatives in 1815 and 1816; mayor of Savannah 1817-1819;
judge of the court of common pleas and oyer and terminer of
Savannah 1820-1822; judge of the superior court of Savannah from
1822 to 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4,
1829, to January 13, 1835, when he resigned to accept a judicial
position; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-third
Congress); had been reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress;
appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States and served from January 14, 1835, until his death in
Washington, D.C., on July 5, 1867; interment in Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham County, Ga.
Bibliography
Lawrence, Alexander A. James Moore Wayne, Southern Unionist.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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