George Baldwin Augustus (1802 - September 20, 1850) [1] was a judge and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate. He represented Noxubee County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1836. [2] He served as President of the Mississippi Senate from 1840 to 1842. [3]
He served four terms in the Mississippi Senate. William Baldwin Augustus (1840–1901) was his son. Anne H. Augustus was his granddaughter. [4]
He died September 20, 1850. [5]
Hannibal Hamlin was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.
Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.” A section of the city largely along Main Street and Liberty Street has been designated the Pontotoc Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Treaty of Pontotoc Site is also listed on the National Register. The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek, part of U.S. president Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy, ceded millions of acres of Native American lands and relocated the Chicakasaw west of the Mississippi River.
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