Governor Troup's Home State Historical
Marker
Located at Ga. 199 .9 mile north of
I-16, Laurens County, Ga.
(Text)
GOVERNOR TROUP'S HOME
Here lived George Michael Troup,
Governor of Georgia 1823-27. Born in 1780 at McIntosh's Blufvf
on the Tombigbee river in a part of Georgia that is now Alabama,
he graduated at Princeton, 1797, and was admitted to the bar
at Savannah, 1800. He served in the Georgia Legislature 1801-03,
U.S. Congress 1807-15, and U.S. Senate 1816-18 and 1829-33.
When the Federal government failed
to carry out its agreement to remove the Indians from Georgia,
Troujp in 1825 warned the President: "We have exhausted
the argument. We stand by our arms". The Indians were removed.
- 087-1 GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1996
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© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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