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The November 1789 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on 16 November 1789 in order to elect the Governor of Georgia, this was the first election held under the 1789 constitution, which lengthened terms to two years.
The Georgia State Constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199779000. Saye, Albert Berry (2010) [1948]. A Constitutional History of Georgia, 1732-1945. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335544; Sullivan, Buddy (2003). Georgia: A State History. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-8589-5
Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775, radical Patriots (also known as Whigs) took control of the provincial government, and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and ...
George Walton (c. 1749 – February 2, 1804) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence while representing Georgia in the Continental Congress. [1] Walton also served briefly as the second chief executive of Georgia in 1779 and was again named governor in 1789–1790.
1776–1784. Rank. Captain. Unit. 1st Georgia Battalion. Battles/wars. American Revolutionary War (POW) George Handley (February 9, 1752 – September 17, 1793) was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Georgia from 1788 to 1789. George Handley was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Georgia.
13th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1789 January 6, 1789 - February 4, 1789 Georgia Constitution of 1789: 14 14th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1789 Nov. 2—Dec. 24, 1789 June 7–11, 1790, Ex. 15 15th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1790 Nov. 1, 1790 - Dec. 11, 1790 16 16th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1791
On August 24, 1995, at 5:50 pm, the Parliament of the Republic of Georgia adopted the Constitution of Georgia by 159 votes to 8. On September 17, 1995, members of the State Constitutional Commission and the Parliament of Georgia signed the official text of the Constitution at the Government House , where the Supreme Council of the Republic of ...
William Pierce (politician) William Leigh Pierce (1753 – December 10, 1789) was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer during the Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, merchant, and planter and slave owner. As a delegate representing Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he left before he could ...