The First Families Project - GA - Richmond County

Seaborn Jones

The Seaborn Jones profiled below is presumably the son of the earlier Seaborn, although I have not researched the name carefully. A Seaborn Jones is listed as one of the first superintendents of Augusta in the 1770s prior to the birth of Seaborn below, and a Seaborn was an early Intendant (Mayor) of Augusta in the early 1800's, probably the father again.

Seaborn Jones, a Representative from Georgia; born in Augusta, Ga., February 1, 1788; attended Princeton College; studied law; by a special act of the legislature was admitted to the bar in 1808; commenced practice in Milledgeville, Ga.. He was one of the shrewdest and most successful lawyers in Georgia, well versed in the pleadings, and managing his cases with an adroitness that often surprised opposing counsel. He was appointed solicitor general of the Ocmulgee circuit in September 1817; solicitor general of Georgia in 1823; one of the commissioners appointed to investigate the disturbances in the Creek Nation; moved to Columbus, Ga., in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835) in a contest that greatly divided the vote of Muscogee county - both M. B. LAMAR and John

 

    

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