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Pages in category "People from Colquitt County, Georgia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Buildings and structures in Colquitt County, Georgia (2 C, 11 P) C. Companies based in Colquitt County, Georgia (1 P) E. Education in Colquitt County, Georgia (1 C, 2 ...
John Brown Gordon (() February 6, 1832 – () January 9, 1904) was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War according to historian Ed Bearss, [1]: 241 he strongly opposed Reconstruction era.
Colquitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,898. [1] The county seat is Moultrie. [2] The county was created on February 25, 1856, and is named for Walter Terry Colquitt, a U.S. senator. [3] Colquitt County comprises the Moultrie, GA micropolitan statistical area.
Peyton H. Colquitt was born October 7 (or 8), 1831, in Campbell County, Georgia, the second son of Walter T. Colquitt and his wife Nancy (Holt). His father was a circuit riding preacher who became a politician and was elected as a United States Representative and then Senator from Georgia.
Feb. 4—MOULTRIE — A pair of Colquitt County sophomores swept the Georgia High School Association Class 6A-7A state 1-meter diving championships on Thursday at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center ...
Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824 – March 26, 1894) was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, and politician. Elected as the 49th Governor of Georgia (1877–1882), he was one of numerous Democrats elected to office as white conservatives took back power in the state at the end of the Reconstruction era .
Colquitt County became the 115th county in Georgia by an act of the Legislature on February 25, 1856. It was named after Walter Terry Colquitt, a minister, statesman and lawyer who was a military leader in the mid-1800s. In 1879, a charter was adopted and 50 acres (0.20 km 2) in the center of the county was declared the county seat.