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George Goldthwaite
United States Senator from Alabama
In office March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by	Willard Warner
Succeeded by	John T. Morgan
Personal details
Born	(1810-12-10)December 10, 1810 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	March 18, 1879(1879-03-18) (aged 68) Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Political party	Democratic
Relations	George G. Siebels, Jr. (great-grandson) Alfred Goldthwaite Anne Goldthwaite (granddaughter) Lucy Goldthwaite (granddaughter)

George Goldthwaite (December 10, 1809 – March 16, 1879) was an Alabama Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator for Alabama. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 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. State legislators from Alabama wrote to the U.S. Senate in protest of his election stating he did not receive a majority of the votes from state legislators and was therefore not elected legitimately. He was seated and remained in office.

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.

In 1853 he ruled that a freed woman in Ohio could be returned so slavery to satisfy the debts of her former owner but that her son could not.

References

1. Congress, United States (August 1, 1871). "The Congressional Globe". Blair & Rives – via Google Books.
2. "U.S. Senate: The Election Case of George Goldthwaite of Alabama (1872)". www.senate.gov.
3. "The Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves".

External links

• Alabama Department of Archives & History Archived 2006-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
• George Goldthwaite at Find a Grave

• United States Congress. "George Goldthwaite (id: G000266)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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