Background
Washington, George Corbin was born on August 20, 1789 in “Haywood Farms,” near Oak Grove, Virginia, United States.
United States representative politician
Washington, George Corbin was born on August 20, 1789 in “Haywood Farms,” near Oak Grove, Virginia, United States.
He attended Phillips Academy and Harvard University, studied law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits on his plantation in Maryland.
He was also a grandnephew of United States. President George Washington. He resided for the most part at Dumbarton Heights in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, District of Columbia He served in the Maryland House of Delegates 1816-1819. Washington was elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses, serving three terms from March 4, 1827 until March 3, 1833.
In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia during the Twenty-second Congress.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1832, but was elected two years later as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837. He was again not a candidate for renomination.
After his service in Congress, Washington became president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. He was also appointed by President John Tyler in 1844 as a commissioner to adjust and settle the claims arising under the treaty of 1835 with the Cherokee Indians.
In 1852, he was nominated by the Native American Party as a candidate for Vice President on a ticket with Daniel Webster.
On Webster"s death nine days before the election, the ticket was replaced by Jacob Broom and Reynell Coates. He died in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, District of Columbia, and is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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