Lott Warren

Lott Warren

Lott Warren (born October 30, 1797 in Augusta , Georgia , †  June 17, 1861 in Albany , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lott Warren attended public schools in his home country. In 1816 he moved to Dublin , Laurens County . Two years later he took part in a campaign against the Seminoles as a lieutenant . After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1821, he began working in his new profession in Dublin. Warren was also an ordained minister in the Baptist Church . However, in this capacity he was not entrusted with a specific task or mission. In 1823 he became a major in the Georgia State Militia. Two years later he moved to Marion .

Warren also embarked on a political career in the 1820s. In 1824 and 1831 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives; in 1830 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1831 and 1834 he was a public prosecutor and at times also a judge in the southern judicial district of his home state. Since 1836 he was based in Americus .

Warren became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835 . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1838 he was elected for the ninth mandate of Georgia in the US House of Representatives in Washington , where he succeeded the Democrat Charles Eaton Haynes on March 4, 1839 . After re-election in 1840, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1843 . These have been overshadowed by tensions between his party and President John Tyler since 1841 . A possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which has been independent of Mexico since 1836, was also discussed.

In 1842, Lott Warren declined to run for Congress again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he moved to Albany. From 1843 to 1852 he was a judge in the Superior Court of Georgia . Then he worked again as a lawyer. He died in Albany on June 17, 1861.

Web links

• Lott Warren in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lott Warren in the database of Find a Grave (English)