Walter T. Colquitt

Walter Terry Colquitt (born December 27, 1799 in Halifax County , Virginia , † May 7, 1855 in Macon , Georgia ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1839 to 1840 and from 1842 to 1843 he sat for the US state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives . Between 1843 and 1848 he represented Georgia in the US Senate .

biography

Colquitt was born in Halifax County, Virginia. He moved to Mount Zion , Georgia with his parents . He studied law at Princeton University . In 1820 he was admitted to the bar and from then on worked as a lawyer in Sparta . Colquitt was inducted into the state militia towards the end of the year . In 1826 he was elected as judge on the court of the Chattahoochee circuit , now residing in Cowpens . In 1827 Colquitt was ordained a Methodist preacher. In 1829 he was re-elected to his office as judge. In 1834 and 1837 he was a member of the State Senate .

In 1839 he moved to the US House of Representatives for the first time as a candidate for the United States Whig Party . As early as 1840 he gave back his mandate. Colquitt's first wife died in 1841. In the same year he married Alphea B. Fauntleroy, who died surprisingly in 1842. He married his third wife, Harriet W. Ross, in 1843. He moved into the house again in 1842 as the successor to the resigned Eugenius Aristides Nisbet . He was then re-elected to Congress in 1843 as the US Senator for Georgia. While serving in the Senate, he temporarily served as Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia and the United States Senate Committee on Patents . In 1848 he resigned and returned to Georgia as a lawyer and preacher.

Colquitt died in Macon in 1855 while traveling. He was buried in Columbus in Linwood Cemetery .

The Colquitt County , Georgia is named after him. His son, Alfred H. Colquitt , was among other things governor of Georgia.

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SURNAME	Colquitt, Walter T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Colquitt, Walter Terry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halifax County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	May 7, 1855
Place of death	Macon , Georgia