Wilson Lumpkin was an American planter, attorney, and politician.
14 Facts About Wilson Lumpkin
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Wilson Lumpkin served two terms as the governor of Georgia, from 1831 to 1835, in the period of Indian Removal of the Creek and Cherokee peoples to Indian Territory to make way for development of their lands by European Americans.
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Wilson Lumpkin served in the state house, and as a United States representative and US Senator.
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Wilson Lumpkin ran from Clarke County, Georgia, in the northeast part of the state.
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Wilson Lumpkin attended the common schools, and taught school and farmed.
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Wilson Lumpkin "read the law" with an established practice, and was admitted to the bar; he commenced practice in Athens, Georgia, in Clarke County in the northeast part of the state.
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Wilson Lumpkin was of entirely English ancestry; his first immigrant ancestor was Thomas Lumpkin, who moved from England to Virginia during the colonial period.
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Wilson Lumpkin was elected as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, serving four terms from 1804 to 1812.
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Wilson Lumpkin received an appointment by the Georgia governor as the State Indian Commissioner, where he ran boundary lines between the state of Georgia and Creek Indian lands as part of the Treaty of the Creek Agency.
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Wilson Lumpkin was elected Governor of Georgia in November 1831, for what was then the standard two-year term.
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Wilson Lumpkin was reelected as governor in 1833, due in part to the nullification crisis, and served until 1835.
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In 1835, Wilson Lumpkin was appointed as commissioner under the Cherokee treaty, which virtually all of the remainder of their lands to the United States in exchange for payments and land in Indian Territory.
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Wilson Lumpkin was appointed by the governor as a member of the State Board of Public Works.
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Wilson Lumpkin died a few years after the end of the Civil War, in Athens in 1870; interment was in Oconee Hill Cemetery.