Winthrop Sargent
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Winthrop Sargent (May 1, 1753 – June 3, 1820) was a United States soldier, politician, and writer. In 1789, he married Roewena Tupper, a daughter of Gen. Benjamin Tupper, at the settlement which would later become Marietta, Ohio in the first marriage ceremony held within the Northwest Territory. Winthrop Sargent was a member of the Federalist party; he was Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 7 May 1798 to 25 May 1801.
As a Federalist, Sargent was dismissed from his position as territorial governor in 1801 by incoming president Thomas Jefferson. Sargent took up life in the private sector as a planter in Netchez. He died in 1820 in New Orleans.[1]
[edit] External links
- NNDB page
- Winthrop Sargent at Ohio History Central.
[edit] References
- ^ Skates, John Ray (1979). Mississippi: A Bicentennial History. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0-393-05678-3.
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| New title | Secretary of Northwest Territory 1788-07-09 – 1798-05-31 |
Succeeded by William Henry Harrison |
| Governor of Mississippi Territory 1798–1801 |
Succeeded by William C. C. Claiborne |
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