Eugenius Aristides Nisbet

Eugenius Aristides Nisbet

Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (born December 7, 1803 at Union Point , Greene County , Georgia , † March 18, 1871 in Macon , Bibb County , Georgia) was an American politician and Congressman from Georgia.

Career

Eugenius Aristides Nisbet, cousin of Mark Anthony Cooper , was born on December 7, 1803 near Union Point. He finished his preparatory studies and then went from 1815 to 1817 to the Powellton Academy in Hancock County . He then attended the University of South Carolina at Columbia between 1817 and 1819. Then he graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1821 , got his license to practice law before his 21st birthday as a result of a special ordinance of the parliament and opened his own legal practice in Madison in 1824 in Morgan County .

He decided to embark on a political career in 1827 by being elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where he served until 1830. He then sat in the State Senate between 1830 and 1837 . Nisbet then moved to Macon in 1837, where he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He was also a candidate for the Whig Party for the 25th Congress in 1836 , where he was defeated. But he was elected to the 26th and 27th Congresses, where he worked from March 4, 1839 until his resignation on October 12, 1841.

He was then associate judge ( Associate Judge ) of the Supreme Court of Georgia between 1845 and 1853. He was also in January 1861 a member of the Georgia Secession Convention and the draftsman of their secession order. He was later also a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress , where he resigned on December 10, 1861. In the same year he ran for governor of Georgia, but failed.

Eugenius Nisbet died on March 18, 1871 in Macon and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery .

Web links

• Eugenius Aristides Nisbet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)