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Feb 01, 1788 Augusta, Georgia, United States Died on 18 Mar 1864 (aged 76)
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About Seaborn Jones
- Seaborn Jones (February 1, 1788 – March 18, 1864) was a United States Representative from Georgia.
- Born in Augusta, Georgia, he attended Princeton College and studied law.
- By a special act of the legislature, he was admitted to the bar in 1808.
- He commenced a legal practice in Milledgeville. Jones was appointed Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee circuit in September 1817, and was Solicitor General of Georgia in 1823.
- He was one of the commissioners appointed to investigate the disturbances in the Creek Nation; in 1827 he moved to Columbus, Georgia where he built his home El Dorado, later renamed St.
- Elmo.
- Jones was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1835.
- He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
- He died in Columbus, and was buried was at Linwood Cemetery. Jones' daughter, Mary Howard Jones, married Henry L.
- Benning, for whom Fort Benning is named.
- In 2002, the Seaborn Jones Memorial Park in Rockmart, Georgia was named after Jones.
