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	Button Gwinnett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Button Gwinnett (baptized: April 10, 1735 – May 19, 1777), was one of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.
		Button was born in 1732 in the parish of Down Hatherley in Gloucestershire, England, to Reverend Samuel and Anne Gwinnett.
		Gwinnett was elevated to the vacated position by the Assembly’s Executive Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Button_Gwinnett (597 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gwinnett County, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Button Gwinnett (1735 â€“; May 19, 1777), was one of the signatories (first signature on the left)of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.
		Gwinnett County is seated in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area and borders a number of counties.
		Gwinnett County is the home of the Gwinnett Gladiators (hockey team) of the ECHL play in Duluth at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gwinnett-County%2C-Georgia (5119 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Button Gwinnett (1735-1777)
		Button Gwinnett was one of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		Gwinnett was born in April 1735 in Gloucestershire, England, the son of Anne and the Reverend Samuel Gwinnett.
		Gwinnett's signature is one of the rarest and most valuable of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2543 (727 words)

	Button Gwinnett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Button Gwinnett (abt 1732 - May 19, 1777), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.
		He was also briefly the provisional president of Georgia in 1777, prior to his death, and has Gwinnett County (now a major suburb of metro Atlanta) named after him.
		A fairly obscure historical figure, Gwinnett nonetheless does hold one claim to fame: his autograph is among the most valuable in the world.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Button_Gwinnett (266 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Hall was a longtime friend of Button Gwinnett, one of his fellow delegates to the Congress.
		Gwinnett hoped to again be named leader of the Georgia forces, but that appointment went to Lachlan McIntosh, a longtime political rival.
		Gwinnett was defeated in a bid for the governorship, but was cleared of any wrongdoing in the Florida expedition.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/gasigner.htm (1449 words)

	Gwinnett County, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gwinnett is dominated by car-dependent strip malls, mega malls (Mall of Georgia), car dealerships, industrial warehouses, country clubs, and miles of low-density single family residential housing, all connected via an extensive network of surface streets and superhighways.
		The Gwinnett County Transit (GCT), formed in 2000 and starting local service in 2002, serves much of central and north Gwinnett, and provides easy access to the Doraville MARTA station in northeastern DeKalb County, as well as transportation between major commercial and residential areas.
		Gwinnett County is the home of the Gwinnett Gladiators (hockey team) of the ECHL, who play in Duluth at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwinnett_County,_Georgia (1427 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of Button Gwinnett
		Gwinnett had from his earliest emigration to America taken a deep interest in the welfare of the colonies; but, from the commencement of the controversy with Great Britain, he had few anticipations that the cause of the colonies could succeed.
		Gwinnett was a member, and is said to have furnished the outlines of that constitution, which was subsequently adopted.
		Gwinnett held as president of the council, he was prevented from proceeding at the head of the expedition destined against East Florida.
	www.colonialhall.com /gwinnett/gwinnett.php (791 words)

	Button Gwinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Button Gwinnett is now famous as one of the three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		But Gwinnett lived in Georgia for over ten years before rising to prominence, and to this day no authentic portrait of him has survived, nor do we know exactly where he is buried.
		Gwinnett was born in Gloucester, England, in April 1735, and came to Savannah in 1765 at age thirty.
	www.georgiahistory.com /gwinnett.htm (377 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Button Gwinnett, for whom this county was named, was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1735, the son of a Church of England minister.
		Button Gwinnett was elected Justice of the Peace in 1767; Commissioner of Pilotage in 1768; member of the Georgia Assembly (legislature) in 1769.
		Gwinnett was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Archibald Bulloch as President of the Executive Council, or Provisional Governor of Georgia, on March 4, 1777.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/buttongwinnetthistmarker.htm (248 words)

	Button Gwinnett
		Gwinnett enjoyed little success in farming or business, but found a footing in the revolutionary politics of his adopted colony.
		Gwinnett served in the Georgia legislature where he was involved in drafting a constitution for the new state, but also in strenuous efforts to destroy the office of McIntosh.
		Gwinnett succeeded Archibald Bulloch as president of the council soon afterward.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/signers/gwinnett.htm (313 words)

	Button Gwinnett
		Gwinnett's office, as president of the council, prevented him from proceeding at the head of the expedition.
		Finally, Gwinnett, unmindful of the high offices that he had held and of his obligations to society, challenged M'Intosh to a duel, which was fought on May 15, 1777.
		Gwinnett's wound proved mortal and on May 27, 1777, at forty-five years of age he died a victim to false ambition and a false sense of honor.
	www.thedeclarationofindependence.org /ButtonGwinnett.com (824 words)

	Georgia bed and breakfast, Savannah, GA, Hamilton-Turner Inn, luxury inn, lodging, accommodations.
		Gwinnett was born in 1735 in Gloucestershire, England, the son of Anne and the Reverend Samuel Gwinnett.
		The animosity between McIntosh and Gwinnett came to a head on May 16, 1777, when both men were wounded in a pistol duel in Sir James Wright's pasture outside Savannah.
		Gwinnett died on May 19, 1777, and was buried in Savannah.
	www.hamilton-turnerinn.com /402.html (340 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / WHO’S GOT BUTTON’S BONES?
		Button Gwinnett lived a fast-moving and colorful life, but it was scarcely more fast-moving than the tempests he has stirred up almost two centuries after his death.
		Button Gwinnett was well-known among autograph collectors and specialists in the history of the American Revolution long before the controversy about his bones projected him into the limelight.
		In February of 1777 Archibald Bulloch, first president of the state of Georgia, died suddenly, and Button Gwinnett was appointed by the assembly to succeed him as president and commander in chief of the army.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/2/1966_2_28.shtml (3259 words)

	Button Gwinnett, Georgia governor, signed the Declaration of Independence
		Button Gwinnett came to Georgia from England via Charleston, South Carolina, a route frequently traveled in the 1760's.
		Gwinnett swore to gain control of the legislature during the next session, a feat he accomplished.
		Gwinnett desperately wanted to command the army on the Second Florida Expedition, which was forming in April, 1777.
	ngeorgia.com /people/gwinnett.html (669 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Button Gwinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		George Ervin Sonny Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Georgia.
		Gwinnett was elevated to the vacated position by the Assembly’s Executive Couoncil.
		Gwinnett is home of a large conservative Christian population as well as the home of the Baptist Convention of Georgia, the Church of Christ in the Americas, and the Presbyterian Church of the Americas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Button-Gwinnett (3275 words)

	GWINNETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY...GWINNETT HISTORY
		The Gwinnett County Academy is established as the county academy and the first public school in Gwinnett County.
		Gwinnett responds to the call for troops with 18 companies: one artillery unit, five calvary units, and 12 infantry units, comprising almost 2,000 of the finest men of Gwinnett County..
		The population increases greatly as Gwinnett County becomes one of the reasons Georgia is once again an agricultural leader in the South and the nation.
	www.gwinnetths.org /History/gchistory.htm (1504 words)

	Button Gwinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Button Gwinnett (abt 1732 - May19, 1777), was a signer of the United States Declaration ofIndependence as a representative of Georgia.
		He wasalso briefly the provisional president of Georgia in 1777, prior to his death, and has Gwinnett County (now amajor suburb of metro Atlanta)named after him.
		Both were wounded: McIntosh survived, but Button Gwinnett died three days later of hiswounds.
	www.therfcc.org /button-gwinnett-101805.html (247 words)

	Button Gwinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was born in England immigrated to America near Charleston and acquired land in in 1765.
		A fairly obscure historical figure Gwinnett nonetheless hold one claim to fame: his autograph is among the most valuable in world.
		Valuations usually suggest an example of original Gwinnett signature would be valued only the likes of Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare making Gwinnett's by far the most American autograph.
	www.freeglossary.com /Button_Gwinnett (271 words)

	Plantation Houses of Gwinnett
		Gwinnett, a merchant and planter living in coastal Georgia, died in 1777 and never saw the county which honors his name.
		He was one of Gwinnett's three delegates to the secession convention in Milledgeville where the State of Georgia resolved to withdraw from the Union.
		Gwinnett County was given the Post Office and surrounding land in 1997 to preserve and restore.
	www.gwinnetths.org /Tour/tour.htm (2020 words)

	Georgia Department of Community Affairs
		Gwinnett County was formed from lands obtained through the treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians.
		Georgia's 42nd county was named for Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		The Gwinnett County Fairgrounds hosts an Indian Festival in May, a rodeo in July and a countywide fair in September.
	www.dca.state.ga.us /snapshots/p1.asp?County=Gwinnett (276 words)

	Button Gwinnett
		Button Gwinnett was born in England in the 1730’s.
		Gwinnett was a key player in the development of the Georgia State Constitution of 1777 and was picked to finish out the term of Governor Archibald Bulloch after the Governor’s untimely death.
		Button Gwinnett now resides in McDaniel Farm Park, a brand-new facility, just dedicated on October 9, 2004.
	webpages.charter.net /awoolwine/buttongwinnett.htm (628 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (Button Gwinnett)
		Tempestuousness and ill-fortune marked the destiny of uniquely named Button Gwinnett, whose forename is that of a branch of his mother's family.
		Gwinnett was likely born in 1735, at the village of Down Hatherly, Gloucestershire, England.
		Gwinnett's land, slaves, and other possessions were soon gobbled up by creditors.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/declaration/bio13.htm (807 words)

	Button Gwinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Button Gwinnett''' (1735 – May 19, 1777), was one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.
		Button was born in the parish of Down Hatherley in Gloucestershire, England to Reverend Samuel and Anne Gwinnett.
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	Button Gwinnett
		On coming of age, Gwinnett became a merchant in the city of Bristol.
		Bullock, Gwinnett was appointed to fill the vacant office on March 4, 1777.
		Gwinnett became president of the Executive Council, and he adopted several measures that were able to mortify his adversary, General M'Intosh.
	www.famousamericans.net /buttongwinnett (922 words)

	Definitive Agreement Executed - Premier Bancshares, Inc. to Acquire Button Gwinnett Financial Corporation
		Button Gwinnett owns The Bank of Gwinnett County and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
		The Bank's three offices are located in Gwinnett County, which has been one of the Country's fastest growing counties for the past three decades.
		Gwinnett County has been one of the five fastest growing large counties in the Country for population and job growth for the past decade.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/2-5-98/410010&EDATE= (961 words)

	Button Gwinnett, Signer of Declaration of Independence
		Button Gwinnett is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
		Button Gwinnett and fellow Declaration of Independence signer Lyman Hall were members of the same Congregationalist congregation in Sunbury, Georgia.
		In October Gwinnett was reelected to the Continental Congress, but chose not to attend.
	www.adherents.com /people/pg/Button_Gwinnett.html (596 words)

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