Thomas Spalding

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Thomas Spalding

Thomas Spalding (born March 26, 1774 in Frederica , Glynn County , Province of Georgia , †  January 5, 1851 in Darien , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1805 and 1806 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Spalding attended public schools in his home country and a private school in Massachusetts . He then studied law, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he worked in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In 1794 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives , and in 1798 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. From 1803 Spalding was based in McIntosh County . At that time he also became a member of the State Senate .

In the congressional election of 1804 , Cowles Mead was actually elected for the fourth mandate from Georgia to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where the latter took up his new mandate on March 4, 1805. However, Thomas Spalding objected to the outcome of this election, which was approved by Congress in December of the same year . On December 24, 1805, he took over the mandate in the House of Representatives. However, he resigned in 1806. The last two months of the current legislative period were then ended by William Wyatt Bibb , who was victorious in a by-election .

After serving in the US House of Representatives, Spalding served as the curator of the McIntosh County Academy . He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Darien and its Milledgeville branch . Spalding was president of this bank for a long time. He also dealt with cotton cultivation. In 1826 he was a member of a commission that established the border between the State of Georgia and the Florida Territory . Spalding was also the government commissioner for the damage caused to the south in the British-American War of 1812 . In 1850, he served as president of a meeting in Milledgedville that decided to oppose any attempt by Congress to end slavery . Thomas Spalding died on January 5, 1851 on the way home from this meeting with his son, who lived near Darien.

Web links

  • Thomas Spalding in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)