George McIntosh Troup was an American politician from the US state of Georgia.
20 Facts About George Troup
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George Troup served in the Georgia General Assembly, US House of Representatives, and US Senate before becoming the 32nd Governor of Georgia for two terms and then returning to the US Senate.
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George Troup was born during the American Revolution at McIntosh Bluff, on the Tombigbee River in what is Alabama.
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George Troup was the son of George Troup and Catherine McIntosh, the Georgia-born daughter of Captain John McIntosh, a British military officer and the chief of the McIntosh clan.
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George Troup was twice married and the father of six children.
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George Troup graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1797.
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George Troup read the law with an established firm and two years later was admitted to the bar in Savannah, Georgia.
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George Troup entered politics, where he became a strong opponent of the Yazoo land scandal.
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George Troup was re-elected three times and served from 1807 to 1815.
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George Troup was elected to the US Senate, where he was supported by fellow wealthy plantation owners and served as chairman of the Senate Committee of Military Affairs.
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However, George Troup twice lost to Crawford's bitter rival, John Clark, who was supported by frontier settlers.
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In 1823, George Troup ran again, as Clark was no longer eligible, and won.
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George Troup advocated the removal of the Creek Indians from western Georgia.
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George Troup wanted to move them to the Western Territory of the Louisiana Purchase, an idea first proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1803.
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In 1825, in Georgia's first popular election, George Troup won by a razor-thin margin.
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George Troup negotiated the controversial Treaty of Indian Springs on February 12,1825, with his first cousin William McIntosh, a mixed-blood Creek chief.
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George Troup threatened an attack on Federal troops if they interfered with the treaty and challenged President John Quincy Adams, who conceded and allowed Troup to seize the remaining Creek land in Georgia.
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George Troup was a nominee for President of the United States at the States Rights Convention in January 1852 in Jackson, Mississippi.
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George Troup died while visiting one of his plantations near the Oconee River in Montgomery County, Georgia.
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George Troup County was created from former Lower Creek land in 1826 and named for him.