Baldwin County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census,its population was 43,799. The county seat is Milledgeville,which was developed along the Oconee River. Baldwin County is part of the Milledgeville micropolitan statistical area.
Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon,bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to build a city. It was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868,including during the American Civil War. Milledgeville was preceded as the capital city by Louisville and was succeeded by Atlanta,the current capital. Today U.S. Highway 441 connects Milledgeville to Madison,Athens,and Dublin.
The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral,consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Joseph Emerson Brown,often referred to as Joe Brown,was an American attorney and politician,serving as the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865,the only governor to serve four terms. He also served as a United States Senator from that state from 1880 to 1891.
The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century,mostly centered on Catholic missions. The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the territory by the early 18th century,although they had settlements in nearby Florida. They had little influence historically in what would become Georgia.
George Walker Crawford was a licensed attorney turned politician from Columbia County,Georgia. Crawford was appointed attorney general for the state in 1827,by Governor John Forsyth,serving in that capacity until 1831. Crawford also served five years in the General Assembly's lower house as a representative of Richmond County on a platform of states' rights.
Herschel Vespasian Johnson was an American politician. He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 U.S. presidential election. He also served as one of Georgia's Confederate States senators.
Howell Cobb was an American and later Confederate political figure. A southern Democrat,Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and the speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a secretary of the treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860).
The Great Seal of the State of Georgia is a device that has historically been used to authenticate government documents executed by the state of Georgia. The first great seal of the state was specified in the State Constitution of 1777,and its current form was adopted in 1799 with alterations in 1914. Its specifications are currently spelled out by statute.
The Georgia State Capitol is an architecturally and historically significant building in Atlanta,Georgia,United States. The building has been named a National Historic Landmark which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As the primary office building of Georgia's government,the capitol houses the offices of the governor,lieutenant governor,and secretary of state on the second floor,chambers in which the General Assembly,consisting of the Georgia State Senate and Georgia House of Representatives,meets annually from January to April. The fourth floor houses visitors' galleries overlooking the legislative chambers and a museum located near the rotunda in which a statue of Miss Freedom caps the dome.
Wilson Lumpkin was an American planter,attorney,and politician. He served two terms as the governor of Georgia,from 1831 to 1835,in the period of Indian Removal of the Creek and Cherokee peoples to Indian Territory to make way for development of their lands by European Americans. He also served in the state house,and as a United States representative and US Senator. He ran from Clarke County,Georgia,in the northeast part of the state.
George Rockingham Gilmer was an American politician. He served two non-consecutive terms as the 34th governor of Georgia,the first from 1829 to 1831 and the second from 1837 to 1839. He also served multiple terms in the United States House of Representatives.
John W. A. Sanford Sr. was a plantation manager,military officer,land agent,and politician from Georgia. He served as Secretary of State of Georgia and in the United States House of Representatives.
At the end of the American Civil War,the devastation and disruption in the state of Georgia were dramatic. Wartime damage,the inability to maintain a labor force without slavery,and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production. The state's chief cash crop,cotton,fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865,while harvests of corn and wheat were also meager. The state government subsidized construction of numerous new railroad lines. White farmers turned to cotton as a cash crop,often using commercial fertilizers to make up for the poor soils they owned. The coastal rice plantations never recovered from the war.
Philip Cook Sr. was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a reconstruction era member of the United States Congress.
Benjamin Wynn Fortson Jr. was a Secretary of State of Georgia. After being selected by Ellis Arnall,the governor in 1946,Fortson kept his title as secretary until 1979,making him the longest-running secretary in Georgia history.
Ira Roe Foster was a teacher,medical doctor,attorney,soldier,businessman,and politician from South Carolina. During the 1840s,Foster served as brigadier general in the Georgia Militia.
The Old State Capitol is located in Milledgeville,Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13,1970. It is located on Greene Street and is now a museum. Georgia's original state capitol was in Louisville,Georgia. On December 12,1804,the state legislature voted to designate Milledgeville as the capital of Georgia. In 1805,$60,000 was appropriated to build a capitol building;and a planned city with elements of Savannah,Georgia,and Washington D.C.,was proposed,for centrally-located Milledgeville. Jett Thomas and John B. Scott were the general contractors for the construction work.
Ignatius Elgin Shumate was a teacher,colonel in the Confederate Army,and lawyer.
Floyd L. Griffin Jr. is an American politician who served as the mayor of Milledgeville,Georgia,from 2001 to 2005,and in the Georgia State Senate representing the 25th district from 1995 to 1999,as a member of the Democratic Party. He sought the Democratic Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 1998 and Georgia Secretary of State in 2022.
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