Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Charlton, Robert Milledge 1807 - 1854
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   ROBERT MILLEDGE CHARLTON, younger son of Thomas U. P. and Emily Charlton, was
born in Savannah, Georgia, on January 19, 1807, and died there on January 18,
1854. He was called to the bar when very young, and served in the legislature at
twenty-one. At twenty-three he was appointed district attorney by Andrew
Jackson; and at twenty-eight was elected judge of the eastern judicial circuit.
He was three times mayor of Savannah, and toward the end of his career became
United States senator from Georgia. His practice at the bar was extensive and
successful. Among the early Georgia reports is a volume published by him and
containing his own decisions as well as those of the judges who held the bench
in the eastern circuit subsequent to the publication of the reports of T. U. P.
Charlton. He was a man of the finest sensibilities and highest ideals, loving
his state and her people. He was at once firm and gentle; helpful and
sympathetic. Devoted to the teachings of his own church, in his intercourse with
his fellow man he knew no limitations of specific creeds or conditions, and
became probably the most beloved citizen Savannah ever had. In 1829 he married
Margaret, daughter of Peter Shick, whose ancestors had departed from Salsburg at
the time of the Protestant exodus, settling in the colony of Georgia during the
first years of its establishment. Judge Charlton was not only a learned lawyer
and an orator, but a writer and poet. In his mind the wit of his father was
tempered with a fine sense of humor, the evidences of which appear in his
contributions to the Knickerbocker Magazine, the leading periodical of those
times, in a series of sketches of life on the circuit. An edition of his poems,
to which were added some of the productions of his brother, appeared in 1839,
and another edition in 1842. Charlton county, Georgia, was named for him, and
Charlton ward, Savannah.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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