Josiah Tattnall | |
|---|---|
| United States Senator from Georgia | |
| In office February 20, 1796 – March 3, 1799 | |
| Preceded by | George Walton |
| Succeeded by | Abraham Baldwin |
| 25th Governor of Georgia | |
| In office November 7, 1801 – November 4, 1802 | |
| Preceded by | David Emanuel |
| Succeeded by | John Milledge |
| Member of the Georgia House of Representatives | |
| In office 1795-1796 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1762 Savannah, Georgia Province |
| Died | (aged 41)[1] Nassau, British West Indies |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
| Relatives | Harriet Tattnall (wife) Josiah Tattnall Sr. (father) Josiah Tattnall III (son) |
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Josiah Tattnall (c. 1762 – June 6, 1803)[2][3] was an American planter, soldier and politician from Savannah, Georgia. He represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 1796 to 1799, and was the 25th Governor of Georgia in 1801 and 1802. Born near Savannah, Georgia, at Bonaventure Plantation in the early 1760s (he was the first native-born Georgian governor after the state was admitted into the Union) to Mary Mullryne and Josiah Tattnall, he studied at Eton School before joining Anthony Wayne's troops at Ebenezer during the American Revolutionary War.[4] After the war, he was elected brigadier general of the 1st Regiment in the Georgia Militia. He helped to rescind the Yazoo land fraud of 1795.[5] He died in Nassau, New Providence.[5]
- ^ Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, Lucian Lamar Knight (The Byrd Printing Company, 1914)
- ^ Joseph Nathan Kane; Charles Curry Aiken (2005). The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000 (5th ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 292. ISBN 0-8108-5036-2.
- ^ Oberg, Barbarta B. (ed.). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801, Thomas Jefferson, 1950. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-691-13773-5.
- ^ Smith, p. 343.
- ^ a b Smith, p. 344.