History of Elbert County Georgia United States of America

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Nathaniel Job Hammond, representative, was born in Elbert county, Ga., Dec. 26, 1833; son of Amos Worrill and Eliza Caroline (Hudson) Hammond; grandson of Job and Lucy (Howard) Hammond, and of Nathaniel Greene Hudson; great grandson of Samuel Hammond of Virginia, and a descendant of Maj.-Gen. John Hammend, who came from England to Virginia in 1635-37; removed to Maryland about 1645, and laid out the city of Annapolis, changing its name from Providence in honor of Queen Anne. Nathaniel was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1852; practised law in Atlanta in partnership with his father; was solicitor-general of the state, 1861-65; reporter of the supreme court, 1867-72; attorney-general of the state of Georgia, 1872-77; a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1865 audi 1877; a Democratic representative in the 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1879-87, and a member of the judiciary committee: trustee of the Uuiversity of Georgia, 1872-99; chairman of that board, 1889-99, and the earnest and powerful champion of the University and of education in general before the state legislature, and in convention; president of the board of trustees of the Atlanta college of physicians and surgeons; and chairman of the commission to settle claims between the state and the Western & Atlantic railroad company in 1891. His portrait was presented to the state by the bar of Atlanta, accepted by the General assembly, and placed in the law library of the state capitol. He was married in 1838, to Laura, daughter of Curtis Lewis of Griffin, Ga. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Georgia in 1896. He died in Atlanta, Ga., April 20, 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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