General digested index to Georgia reports: including 1, 2, 3 Kelly, 4 to 10 Georgia reports, T.U.P. Charlton's reports, R.M. Charlton's reports, Dudley's reports, and Geo. decisions, parts I & II
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The Removal of the Cherokee Indians From Georgia, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Page 180. Gov. Lumpkin names John Henderson as a Senator from Mississippi in 1837; but he did not enter the Senate until 1839, succeeding Senator John Black.
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Wilson Lumpkin was an American statesman. He was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Georgia's district. He served as the 35th Governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835 and United States Senator from Georgia from 1837 to 1841.
Background
Wilson Lumpkin was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of John and Lucy (Hopson) Lumpkin, second of eleven children. In 1784 when Wilson was an infant, the family moved to the Georgia frontier, where they became pioneers on Long Creek, in what became Oglethorpe County. The Lumpkin family was distinguished for its jurists, among them being the brother of Wilson, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia.
Education
Wilson was educated in the common schools of the county. He supplemented this scanty education by wide reading in history and public law during five years from 1799 to 1804. In 1804, at the age of twenty-one, he was admitted to the bar.
Career
Lumpkin started his work experience as a clerk of superior court. During her early years he also worked on the farm and taught school. In 1804 he began his law practice at Athens, Georgia. In the same year he was elected to the lower house of the Georgia legislature, where he served for the greater part of the next ten years. In 1814 he was elected to Congress but was defeated for reelection in 1816.
He then took up residence in Morgan County, west of Oglethorpe, where he intended to farm, but in the same year (1818) he was appointed a commissioner to run the lines of lands recently ceded by the Creek Indians to the state of Georgia. He began at this time that long and intimate connection with Indian problems in Georgia, in which field he rendered his most distinctive service. In 1819 he again went to the legislature, but he retired in 1821 to accept another appointment as Indian commissioner.
He was elected to Congress in 1826, serving through two terms (1827 - 1831). Although re-elected for a third term in 1831, he resigned from Congress to run for the governorship and was successful. At this time the chief public question in Georgia was the removal of the Creek and Cherokee Indians from the state. As governor of Georgia for two terms (1831 - 1835) Lumpkin was chiefly preoccupied with the problem of removing the Cherokees, settled by favorable treaty in 1835. In handling the Cherokee situation he maintained the vigorous state-rights attitude of his predecessors. In 1836 he was appointed Cherokee commissioner and was serving in this capacity when elected in November 1837 to fill the unexpired term of John P. King in the United States Senate.
Retiring from the Senate in 1841 he devoted two years to the task of rehabilitating the affairs of the state railroad, the Western & Atlantic, then under construction, in which he had long taken interest. The southern terminus of this road (now Atlanta) was for a time called Marthasville, in honor of Governor Lumpkin's daughter. In 1843 he retired to his plantation, where he continued for years to exercise large public influence through his correspondence and friends. In the developing sectional controversy, 1845-1860, he maintained extreme state-rights views. When secession came, his advanced age precluded participation in public affairs, but his sympathies were with secession and the Southern Confederacy. Lumpkin left a voluminous manuscript captioned "The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, " but in effect an autobiography, containing letters, speeches, and public papers, covering his entire career.
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Politics
In Congress, Lumpkin supported the vigorous governors, George M. Troup and John Forsyth, in their controversies with the federal government over Indian removals.
Connections
Lumpkin married on November 20, 1800, Elizabeth Walker, who bore him five sons and three daughters. She died in 1819 and on January 1, 1821, he was married to Annis Hopkins, by whom he had four children.