Washington Poe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Washington Poe (July 13, 1800 – October 7, 1876) was an American Whig politician and lawyer from Georgia

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Poe studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar. In 1841, he was elected mayor of Macon, Georgia. He had been solicitor-general for the Macon circuit. During the American Civil War, he was the postmaster of Macon, Georgia.^[1]

In 1844, Poe was elected to the United States House of Representatives, but declined the election.^[2] Poe was a delegate to The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861—voting in favor of secession and signing Georgia's Ordinance of Secession on January 19, 1861.

Notes

↑ 'Civil War Macon-The History of a Confederate City,' Richard W. Iobst, Mercer University Press: 2009, pg. 445-446
↑ Macon Telegraph & Messenger

v t e Mayors of Macon, Georgia

Booth Rogers Tracy Poe Birdsong Washburn Dannelly Rowland Eckley Seymour Beall Seymour Poe Sims Gresham Nisbet Holmes Gresham Logan Washington Strohecker Ross Adams Sparks Thompson Sparks Collins Obear Huff Corput Price Horne Price Smith Miller Moore Smith Toole Williams Miller Williams Toole Smart Bowden Wilson Merritt Wilson Merritt Thompson Melton Israel Robinson Olmstead Carter Marshall Ellis Reichert

Persondata
Name	Poe, Washington
Alternative names
Short description	American mayor
Date of birth	July 13, 1800
Place of birth	Augusta, Georgia
Date of death	October 7, 1876
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.

Washington Poe

See also

Notes