CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE CONGRESSMAN GEORGIA SECESSION SIGNER NISBET LETTER SIGNED!

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Here’s an Autograph Letter Signed by Civil War Georgia Confederate and US Statesman
EUGENIUS ARISTIDES NISBET
(1803 - 1871)
DELEGATE FROM GEORGIA TO THE PROVISIONAL CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA CONGRESS, MEETING IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA IN 1861,
DELEGATE TO THE GEORGIA SECESSION CONVENTION IN JAN. 1861, INTRODUCING THE RESOLUTION CALLING FOR GEORGIA’S DISUNION and AUTHORING AND SIGNING THE ORDINANCE OF SECESSION,
CANDIDATE FOR GEORGIA GOVERNOR AFTER SECESSION, BUT DEFEATED BY JOSEPH E. BROWN,
US WHIG PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM GA 1839-1841, RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. HOUSE IN 1841, DUE, IN PART, TO
"…A GROWING DISTASTE FOR POLITICAL LIFE…,"
ELECTED AS ONE OF THE THREE INITIAL JUSTICES OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA
IN 1845, and SERVED AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ON THAT COURT UNTIL 1853,
MEMBER OF THE
GEORGIA STATE SENATE
1830-1837
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MEMBER OF THE GA STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1827-1830.
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HERE’S AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY NISBET ON THE INTEGRAL LEAF OF A STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER COVER, DATED AT MACON, GEO., AUG. 25
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1839 TO J. M. ADAMS AT COVINGTON, NEWTON Co., GEORGIA, AKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF HIS LETTER INFORMING HIM THAT WAS ELECTED TO THE FENN SOCIETY OF EMERY COLLEGE.
NISBET ACCEPTS MEMBERSHIP IN THE LITERARY SOCIETY WITH HONOR.
THE ADDRESS LEAF BEARS A 12½ CENT MANUSCRIPT POST OFFICE RATE, and LIGHT RED MACON GA CDS POSTMARK.
The document measures
8” x 10” and is in VF condition, especially considering its advanced age.
A FINE PIECE OF VIRGINIA POLITICAL HISTORY TO ADD TO YOUR AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
E. A. NISBET
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
(December 7, 1803 – March 18, 1871) was an American politician,
jurist
, and lawyer.
Biography
Nisbet was born near
Union Point, Greene County, Georgia
. He attended the Powellton Academy in
Hancock County, Georgia
from 1815 to 1817, the
University of South Carolina
in
Columbia
from 1817 to 1819, and graduated from the
University of Georgia
in
Athens
with an Bachelor of Arts in 1821. Nisbet then attended the
Litchfield Law School
in
Connecticut
.
After receiving admission in 1824 to the state bar by a special act of the
Georgia General Assembly
as he was not yet twenty-one, Nisbet began the practice of law in
Madison, Georgia
.
Nisbet was elected to the
Georgia House of Representatives
in 1827 and served until 1830 when he was elected to the
Georgia Senate
. He served in the state senate until 1837. Nisbet unsuccessfully ran for the
U.S. House of Representatives
in 1836; however, he was elected to that body in 1838 and again in 1840.
Nisbet resigned from the U.S. House in 1841, due to "the condition of his private affairs and a growing distaste for political life."
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Nisbet was later elected as one of the three initial justices of the
Supreme Court of Georgia
in 1845, and he served as an associate justice on that court until 1853. In 1861, Nisbet was a delegate to the
Georgia Secession Convention
and signed the
Ordinance of Secession
. He also ran an unsuccessful campaign to become
Governor of Georgia
in that same year. Nisbet served as a trustee of UGA from 1864 until his death in 1871 in
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
. He was buried in that city's
Rose Hill Cemetery
.
References
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871)
United States Congress.
"Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (id: N000111)"
.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
.
History of the University of Georgia
, Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949 pp.196-197
List of signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession
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