Years of Service: 1818-1819; 1829-1834 Party: Republican; Jacksonian
Library of Congress
FORSYTH, John, a Representative and a
Senator from Georgia; born in Fredericksburg, Va., October 22, 1780; graduated
from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1799; moved to
Augusta, Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced
practice; elected attorney general of Georgia in 1808; elected as a Republican
to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses, and served from March
4, 1813, until his resignation, effective November 23, 1818; chairman, Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of State (Fifteenth Congress); elected to the
United States Senate as a Republican on November 7, 1818, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of George M. Troup, and served from November 23, 1818,
to February 17, 1819, when he resigned to accept a diplomatic appointment;
Minister to Spain 1819-1823; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his resignation,
effective November 7, 1827; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Congresses); Governor of Georgia 1827-1829; again elected to the
United States Senate as a Jacksonian to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of John Macpherson Berrien and served from November 9, 1829, to June
27, 1834, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Committee on
Commerce (Twenty-second Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-second
Congress), Committee on Finance (Twenty-second Congress); appointed Secretary of
State by President Andrew Jackson; reappointed by President Martin Van Buren and
served from 1834 to 1841; died in Washington, D.C., October 21, 1841; interment
in Congressional Cemetery. - Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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