George A. Waggaman

George A. Waggaman

George Augustus Waggaman (* 1782 in Caroline County , Maryland , †  March 31, 1843 in New Orleans ) was an American politician ( National Republican Party ) who represented the state of Louisiana in the US Senate .

After receiving his school education from private tutors, George Waggaman studied law and was inducted into the Caroline County Bar in 1811. He then fought as a soldier in the British-American War and took part in the Battle of New Orleans under the command of General Andrew Jackson , who later became President of the United States . He then stayed in Louisiana, settled in Baton Rouge and practiced there as a lawyer from 1813.

In the same year Waggaman became Attorney General of the Louisiana Third Jurisdiction; from 1818 he acted as a judge for the third district court of the state. The following year he was appointed associate judge in the New Orleans Criminal Court. During this time he was privately engaged in the cultivation of sugar cane .

He took his first political office in 1830 as Secretary of State of Louisiana. On November 15, 1831 Waggaman was appointed to succeed the resigned US Senator Edward Livingston . He ended his term, which ran until March 3, 1835, and then resigned from Congress to continue his work as a planter and lawyer in New Orleans. On March 31, 1843, he suffered fatal gunshot wounds in a duel .

Web links

• George A. Waggaman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George A. Waggaman in the database of Find a Grave (English)