William J. Northen

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William Jonathan Northen, the two-term governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, was born in Jones County, Georgia, on July 9, 1835.

Northen graduated from Mercer University. He married Martha Neel in 1860 and served as a two-term member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1877-81). He also was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1884.

Northen died on March 25, 1913, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is buried in Oakland Cemetery.

[edit] References

• Georgia Governor's Gravesites Field Guide (1776-2003)

[edit] External links

• (1910) in William J. Northen: Men of Mark in Georgia (PDF), Volume II, Atlanta, Georgia: A. B. Caldwell, pp.353-356. Retrieved on December 28, 2006. 
• Portrait of William J. Northen

Preceded by John Brown Gordon

Governor of Georgia 1890 – 1894

Succeeded by William Yates Atkinson

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