Columbia-Richmond County GaArchives Biographies.....Crawford, George Washington December 22 1798 - July 22 1872
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. I, Atlanta, Ga
Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. I, Atlanta, Ga.
Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895
Page 233

George Washington Crawford was born in Columbia County, Ga., Dec. 22, 1798.  He 
was graduated from Princeton College in 1820, and was admitted to the bar in 
1824.  From 1827 to 1831 he was attorney-general of Georgia, and then was 
elected to the legislature, serving from 1837 till 1841.  In 1843 he was 
elected governor, on the Whig ticket, and in 1845 he was re-elected.  His 
administration was an excellent one, distinguished for the adjustment of the 
state’s finances and the restoration of its credit.  In securing this end Gov. 
Crawford pledged his personal estate to the extent of $150,000.  In 1849 he 
entered the cabinet of President Taylor, as secretary of war, but resigned in 
1850, when the president died.  In 1861 he presided over the Georgia secession 
convention.  He spent several years in Europe, and on his return lived in 
retirement at his home in Richmond County, where he died after the war.


Additional Comments:
Transcriber's note: The date of death for Governor Crawford was obtained from a 
book on a webpage entitled "Secretaries of War & Secretaries of the Army, 
author, William Gardner Bell. The address for the page 
is:http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/sw-sa/SWSA-Fm.htm

The book states that "Governor Crawford died at his Bel Air Estate near Augusta 
on July 22, 1872."  It also states that "his middle name is given as Walker in 
some sources."  There is a portrait of George Washington Crawford included on 
the webpage with his biography.



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