John WA Sanford

John WA Sanford (born August 28, 1798 in Milledgeville , Baldwin County , Georgia , †  September 12, 1870 ibid) was an American politician . In 1835 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Sanford attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Yale University . After graduating from college, he worked in agriculture in Georgia. Politically, he joined Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . In the state-wide congressional election of 1834 , Sanford was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the fifth mandate from Georgia , where he succeeded Richard Henry Wilde on March 4, 1835 . Sanford resigned from his mandate on July 25, 1835, even before Congress had met for its constituent session.

Sanford resigned because he wanted to personally participate in the eviction of Cherokee Indians from Georgia state. This legally controversial eviction was set out in the Indian Removal Act . The Supreme Court , chaired by John Marshall , had rejected the implementation of the law as not being constitutional. Regardless, President Andrew Jackson got the law enforced. John Sanford even renounced his seat in Congress in support of this move. In the military measures that followed against the Indians, he became a major in the state troops of Georgia.

In 1837 Sanford was elected to the Georgia Senate. He also resigned from this mandate before the constituent meeting. Between 1841 and 1843, as Secretary of State , Sanford was the executive officer of the Georgia government. In 1850 he was a member of a meeting in which the situation in the south and the position of Georgia in the increasingly sharp contrast between the different parts of the country was discussed. John Sanford survived the Civil War . He died in Milledgeville on September 12, 1870.

Web links

• John WA Sanford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Sanford WA in the database of Find a Grave (English)