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"Georgia Senator" William Crosby Dawson Hand Written Note:
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Up for sale a VINTAGE! "Georgia Senator" William Crosby Dawson Hand Written Note Dated 1854. 

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William Crosby Dawson (January

4, 1798 – May 5, 1856) was a lawyer, judge, politician, and soldier

from Georgia. Dawson was born

in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia,

January 4, 1798. His parents were George Dawson, Sr. and Katie Ruth Marston

Skidmore. After taking an academic course from the Rev. Dr. Cumming, Dawson

attended the county academy in Greensboro, and then was graduated from Franklin College, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, in

1816 at the age of eighteen. He studied law for a year in the office of the

Hon. Thomas W. Cobb, at Lexington, Oglethorpe County,

Georgia, and then in the Litchfield Law School of judges Tapping Reeve and James Gould at Litchfield, Connecticut.[1] In 1818, he was admitted to the

bar. Dawson set up a practice in Greensboro, where he was a successful jury

lawyer. He was known for his ability to settle cases out of court. In 1819 he

married Henrietta M. Wingfield. They had eight children. His wife died in 1850.

Dawson remarried in 1854 to Eliza M. Williams of Memphis, Tennessee.

Dawson

was elected as one of the vice presidents of the Alumni Society of the

University of Georgia at its first meeting, on August 4, 1834.

He

was elected Clerk of the Georgia House of

Representatives in 1821 and served twelve years in that post.

From 1828, he compiled Dawson's Digest of Laws of Georgia,

published in 1831.

From

1834 to 1835 he served as a state Senator. In 1836 he was Captain of Volunteers

under General Winfield Scott in

the Creek and Seminole Indian War in

Florida. Dawson was elected as a States' Rights candidate to the United

States House of Representatives for the 24th United States

Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by

the death of General John E. Coffee, taking

office on December 26, 1836.[5] He was re-elected as a Whig to the 25th, 26th, and 27th Congresses.

He served from November 7, 1836, to November 13, 1841. He was the Whig candidate for

Governor of Georgia in 1841 but was defeated by Charles James McDonald. He

thought his defeat as gubernatorial candidate meant that voters disapproved of

his congressional service, particularly his vote earlier in the year to tax

coffee and tea.[6] He resigned from Congress. During

his service in the United States House, Dawson chaired the Committee on Mileage

(25th Congress), the Committee on Claims (26th Congress), and the Committee on

Military Affairs (27th Congress). He was appointed by Governor George W. Crawford to

fill a vacancy as Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit Court in 1845, but he declined

to run as a candidate for the bench at the completion of his term. Dawson was

elected by the state legislature in November 1847 as the Whig candidate for

Georgia's Class 3 seat in the United States Senate for

the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd Congresses,

serving from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855. Dawson supported the compromises that preserved the union

in 1850. He chaired the Committee on Private Land Claims (32nd

Congress) and presided over the Southern convention at Memphis in 1853. He

was twice a delegate to the convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.

Dawson

was initiated to the Scottish Rite Freemasonry at

the "San Marino" Lodge No. 34, Greensboro, GA. He was elected Grand Master of

the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Georgia on November 8, 1843 and served in

that capacity until his death in 1856. While in Congress, he was active in

local Freemasonry. The Dawson Lodge in Washington, D.C. and the Dawson

Lodge in Social Circle, Georgia were named for him.

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