Washington Poe

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.

See also

• List of signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession
• Confederate States of America, causes of secession, "Died of states' rights"
• List of American Civil War generals

Notes

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