Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides

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    Full name
    Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    12
    Family
    James Nisbet (father), Penelope Cooper Nisbet (mother), Amanda Battle (wife)
    Education
    University of South Carolina
    Other
    Other Education
    University of Georgia, Litchfield Law School (CT)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Other Affiliations
    Fire-Eaters (Secessionists)
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    State supreme court

    Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    NISBET, Eugenius Aristides, (cousin of Mark Anthony Cooper), a Representative from Georgia; born near Union Point, Greene County, Ga., December 7, 1803; completed preparatory studies; attended the Powellton Academy, Hancock County, Ga., 1815-1817 and the University of South Carolina at Columbia 1817-1819; was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1821; was admitted to the bar by a special act of the legislature before he was twenty-one and commenced the practice of law in Madison, Morgan County, Ga., in 1824; member of the State house of representatives 1827-1830; served in the State senate 1830-1837; moved to Macon, Ga., in 1837 and resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839, until October 12, 1841, when he resigned; associate judge of the supreme court of Georgia 1845-1853; member of the secession convention of Georgia in January 1861 and was the author of the ordinance of secession; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1861; died in Macon, Bibb County, Ga., March 18, 1871; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
    “Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000111.
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