George Troup

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George McIntosh Troup
David Meriwether
Succeeded byWilson Lumpkin
Member of the Georgia General Assembly
In office
1803-1805
Personal details
Born(1780-09-08)September 8, 1780
McIntosh Bluff, Alabama
DiedApril 26, 1856(1856-04-26) (aged 75)
Treutlen County, Georgia
Political partyDemocratic-Republican, Democratic
Spouse(s)Anne St. Clair McCormick
Anne Carter
Alma materCollege of New Jersey

George McIntosh Troup (September 8, 1780 – April 26, 1856) was an

planters and supported slavery throughout his career. Later in his life, he was known as "the Hercules of states' rights
."

Family life

Troup was born during the American Revolution at McIntosh Bluff, on the Tombigbee River in what is now Alabama (then a part of the Province of Georgia). He was the son of George Troup and Catherine McIntosh, the Georgia-born daughter of Captain John McIntosh, a British military officer and the chief of the McIntosh clan. (Catherine McIntosh was of the Chiefs of the MacGillivary clan lineage—she was a first cousin to Creek Chief Alexander McGillivray and aunt of Creek Chief William McIntosh.)

Troup was twice married and the father of six children. He primarily lived in

plantation, Valdosta (sometimes spelled Val d'Osta), was named after the Valle d'Aosta alpine valley in Italy. In turn, the town of Valdosta, Georgia was named for Troup's plantation. Troupville, Georgia
was also named for him.

Troup graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1797. He read the law with an established firm and two years later was admitted to the bar in Savannah, Georgia.

Early career

Troup entered politics, where he became a strong opponent of the

War Hawks—members who supported the United States' entry into the War of 1812.[1] Troup defended Calhoun on the House floor when Rep. John Randolph of Virginia attacked Calhoun, saying it was "the great mass of the House ... against the solitary gentleman from Virginia."[2]

Troup was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he was supported by fellow wealthy plantation owners and served as chairman of the Senate Committee of Military Affairs.

Governorship of Georgia

Georgia political force

public education and the construction of new roads and canals. Despite the recentness of the War of 1812, Troup maintained that the United States should pursue a positive relationship with Great Britain. Troup always referred to the British in familial terms ("our cousins", "fraternal relations with England" our "sister nation") and believed that since Britain and America shared common roots, the two countries would "ultimately reunite in some form" although he believed the United States would and should "remain forever independent from, though no less loving towards, England."[7] The European country remained most hostile to was France, Troup was very critical of both the French revolution, particularly the Reign of Terror as well as the subsequent Bourbon restoration government.[8]

Later career

Upon the expiration of his second term as governor, Troup returned to the Senate in 1829 as a Jacksonian Democrat, where he served on the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was a nominee for President of the United States at the States Rights Convention in January 1852 in Jackson, Mississippi.

Death and memorialization

A historical marker outside the Old Troup County Courthouse in LaGrange, Georgia pays tribute to George M. Troup (erroneously referred to here as "George Michael Troup").

Troup died while visiting one of his plantations near the Oconee River in Montgomery County, Georgia (now Treutlen County).[9] He was buried on the Rosemont plantation.[10]

Troup County was created from former Lower Creek land in 1826 and named for him.

During the American Civil War, an Athens, Georgia battery was named the "Troup Artillery" in his memory.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ISBN 978-0-8018-9303-2
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  2. ISBN 9780865971509
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  3. ISBN 9780674368088
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  4. ISBN 9780674967618
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  5. ISBN 9780803233638
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  6. ISBN 978-0-87586-696-3
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  7. ^ Holst, Frances Elizabeth. The Congressional Career of George M. Troup. N.p.: University of Georgia, 1938.
  8. ^ Holst, Frances Elizabeth. The Congressional Career of George M. Troup. N.p.: University of Georgia, 1938.
  9. ^ "Governor Troup's Home historical marker". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  10. ^ "Gov. Troup's Tomb historical marker". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

Further reading

  • Harden, Edward Jenkins. The life of George M. Troup. Savannah, 1859.
  • Winn, William W. The Triumph of Ecunnau-Nuxulgee: Land Speculators, George M. Troup, State Rights, and the Removal of the Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, 1825-38. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2015.

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