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George Goldthwaite

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Preceded by
  
Willard Warner

Party
  
Democratic Party

Role
  
U.S. senator


Name
  
George Goldthwaite

Political party
  
Democratic

Succeeded by
  
John Tyler Morgan

George Goldthwaite

Born
  
December 10, 1809 Boston, Massachusetts (
1809-12-10
)

Relations
  
George G. Siebels, Jr. (great-grandson) Alfred Goldthwaite

Died
  
March 16, 1879, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

George Goldthwaite (December 10, 1809 – March 16, 1879) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1871 to March 4, 1877, and did not run for reelection.

He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He succeeded William P. Chilton as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 1856. A great-grandson, George G. Siebels, Jr., was a 20th-century mayor of Birmingham and a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. Another descendant, Alfred Goldthwaite, was a state representative from Montgomery and a state chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.

References

George Goldthwaite Wikipedia