Edward Fenwick TATTNALL, Congress, GA (1788-1832)

1788-1832

TATTNALL, Edward Fenwick, a Representative from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., in 1788; educated in England; held several local offices; solicitor general from November 1816 to September 1817, when he resigned; member of the Georgia state house of representatives in 1818 and 1819; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1827 before the convening of the Twentieth Congress; first captain of the Savannah Volunteer Guards; died in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., November 21, 1832; interment in Bonaventure Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present