Thomas Telfair

Thomas Telfair (born March 2, 1780 in Savannah , Georgia , †  February 18, 1818 there ) was an American politician . Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Telfair was a son of Edward Telfair (1735-1807), who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and twice governor of Georgia. The younger Telfair attended Princeton College until 1805 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Savannah in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by President Thomas Jefferson .

In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1812 , he was elected to the then newly created sixth member of the Georgia House of Representatives in Washington, DC . After a re-election in 1814, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1817 . The first part of his work in Congress was shaped by the events of the British-American War , during which the British occupied Washington in the meantime and burned down public buildings.

Thomas Telfair died less than a year after leaving the US House of Representatives on February 18, 1818 in his native Savannah.

Web links

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

• Thomas Telfair in the database of Find a Grave (English)