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George was born on August 29, 1771 in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. His parents were General John Sullivan and Lydia (Worcester) Sullivan and he inherited the advantages of his father's prestige.
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George was born on August 29, 1771 in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. His parents were General John Sullivan and Lydia (Worcester) Sullivan and he inherited the advantages of his father's prestige.
He received a good education at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, graduating from the latter institution in 1790.
Sullivan studied law in his father's office, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Exeter. He served one year as state attorney-general (1805 - 06), and in the reaction against the Jeffersonian policies which followed the Embargo, he was elected to the Twelfth Congress (1811 - 13). A single term in Washington offered no particular opportunity for distinction but he returned to New Hampshire well known as a stubborn opponent of Madison's foreign policies in general and of the War of 1812 in particular.
His name appears at the head of a list of thirty-four congressmen who signed An Address of Members of the House of Representatives to Their Constituents, on the Subject of the War with Great Britain (1812), denouncing the war as contrary to all moral and prudential considerations. His speech delivered early in August 1812 at a convention of the Friends of Peace of Rockingham County was a scathing attack on President Madison, who according to the orator was responsible for American subserviency to French influence. This speech was printed and widely circulated by the Federalists and later proved embarrassing both to Sullivan and to Daniel Webster, who had headed the resolutions committee on that occasion.
During the war Sullivan served in the New Hampshire legislature (House, 1813 - 14; Senate, 1814-16). With the era of good feeling which followed, like many contemporaries he forgot the animosities of the earlier period.
On December 19, 1815, he began a period of almost twenty years of service as attorney-general, combining an extensive private practice with his public functions and retiring in 1835 when a statute required the incumbent of his office to give his entire service to the state.
In 1817 he represented New Hampshire in the Dartmouth College Case, arguing with great eloquence and an imposing array of authority that the General Court had the right to alter and amend the college charter.
He died in Exeter, April 14, 1838.
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A Federalist, he represented Exeter in the legislature (1805) and seemed to have a promising political career before him when the decline of Federalist strength began.
Quotes from others about the person
J. M. Shirley: "He relied too little on his preparation and too much upon his oratory, his power of illustration and argument".
He was twice married: on August 6, 1799, at Exeter, to Clarissa Lamson, who died in 1824, having borne ten children; and on January 14, 1838, to Philippa Call.