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Nathan Crawford Barnett (c.1801-1890) —
also known as Nathan C. Barnett —
of Georgia.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., about 1801.
Son of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives; elected 1836; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1843-49, 1851-53, 1861-68, 1873-90.
English
and Scottish ancestry.
In 1864, as Union troops approached Georgia's then capital of
Milledgeville, he hid and protected the Great Seal of Georgia
underneath his house.
Died February
4, 1890 (age about 89
years).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett; nephew of William
Harris Crawford; married to Margaret J. Morton (died 1840);
married 1841
to Mary Ann Cooper. |
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Hugh Buchanan (1823-1890) —
of Georgia.
Born in Argyllshire, Scotland,
September
15, 1823.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1855-57; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1856,
1868;
Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1860;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; superior court
judge in Georgia, 1872-80; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1881-85.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., June 11,
1890 (age 66 years, 269
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Son of Edouard G. Hesselberg and Lena (Shackelford) Hesselberg.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 4,
1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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John Pattillo Ridley (b. 1955) —
also known as John Ridley —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Crawford Long Emory University Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
25, 1955.
Son of Harry William Ridley, Jr. and Francis Jo Pattillo Ridley.
Democrat. Special assistant, U.S. Congress, 1974-78; legislative
attaché, Georgia General Assembly, 1978-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1980,
1988
(alternate); candidate in primary for Georgia
state house of representatives 56th District, 1980; vice-chair,
DeKalb County Democratic Party, 1980-84; city commissioner, Decatur,
Ga., 1998-2002.
Presbyterian.
Scottish and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives:
Married 2000
to Susan Elaine Hart Ridley. |
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