1. George Plater III was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Saint Mary's County, Maryland.
12 Facts About George Plater
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George Plater represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780, and briefly served as the sixth Governor of Maryland in 1791 and 1792.
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George Plater III was born at Sotterley, the family plantation near Leonards Town in the Province of Maryland.
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George Plater's siblings included Rebecca Plater Tayloe, wife of John Tayloe II; Anne; Thomas Addison ; and Elizabeth Norton.
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George Plater was appointed by the Maryland Council of Safety to collect funds for the attack on Quebec.
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Under the new constitution, Plater served as president of the Maryland State Senate from 1781 until 1790.
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George Plater was buried in Sotterley, Maryland, but the site of his grave is unknown.
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George Plater was an active Protestant who served twenty-eight years as a vestryman of St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
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George Plater later married Elizabeth Ann Rousby, and they had six children: Rebecca, George, John, Thomas, Edward, and Ann.
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George Plater was the grandmother of Alice Green, wife of Prince Don Angel de Iturbide y Huarte of the Imperial House of Mexico, who were in turn the parents of Prince Don Agustin de Iturbide y Green, who was adopted by Mexico's Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.
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George Plater was a lawyer and would go on to represent Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.
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George Plater was educated in the law by his cousin Francis Scott Key.