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Gilmer's great-grandfather, George Gilmer, a young Scotch physician, emigrated to Williamsburg, Virginia, and married there in 1732.
His children became farmers in the Valley of Virginia. Thomas Meriwether Gilmer, a grandson, married Elizabeth Lewis in 1783, before his twenty-first year, and a few months later joined the movement to the Broad River.
Here in the thrifty agricultural community, he prospered. Of his nine children, George R. Gilmer was the fourth.
Frail from birth, the boy during his early life was subject to the hardships of primitive farm life and irregular schooling. In 1804, he was sent to Dr. Moses Waddel’s academy, where he spent four profitable years.
Through the academy by his eighteenth year, Gilmer taught a neighborhood school for a while, visited his relatives in Virginia, and entered the law school of Stephen Upson in Lexington.
A brief interlude to his law practice came in 1813 when he was sent as the first lieutenant in command of an expedition against the Creek Indians. In 1818, he was elected to the legislature, and two years later to Congress.
In 1824, he was again elected to the state legislature. After two years of successful law practice in Lexington, he was returned to Congress, 1827-29, served as governor, 1829-31, spent a third term in Congress, 1833-35, and was again governor, 1837-39.
He was long a trustee of the University of Georgia and left to it several bequests - notably the Gilmer Fund for the training of teachers.
Gilmer served two non-consecutive terms as the 34th Governor of Georgia, the first from 1829 to 1831 and the second from 1837 to 1839. He also served multiple terms in the United States House of Representatives. He amused the invalidism of his declining years by writing Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia (1885), commonly called “Gilmer’s Georgians, ” in which he revealed with ingenuous frankness the intimate facts and foibles of the associates of his earlier days. Though he had been prominent in state affairs, it was as the author of this book that he came to be best known. Its publication brought consternation to so many eminent families that, it is said, attempts were made to buy up and destroy the whole edition. Gilmer County, Georgia is named after him.
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In all his public relations, Gilmer revealed strong common sense and proved himself conscientious and able. He was aligned with the Troup party in local politics, defended slavery, and took a strong stand for states’ rights, especially in connection with the Cherokee Indian question.
In 1822, Gilmer married his Virginia cousin, Eliza Frances Grattan.
16 June 1763 - 13 July 1817
24 January 1765 - 21 August 1855
25 May 1792 - 12 January 1860
29 July 1788 - 27 November 1867
1809 - 12 July 1816
29 August 1784 - 13 February 1861
11 March 1801 - 9 January 1887
1802 - 9 August 1813
23 June 1786 - 12 July 1856
