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	John M. Berrien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John MacPherson Berrien (August 23, 1781–January 1, 1856) of Georgia was a United States Senator and Andrew Jackson's Attorney General.
		Berrien's views on sectional issues hardened during his tenure in the Senate and he became aligned with the short-lived Southern Rights Party formed to oppose the Compromise of 1850 and the Wilmot Proviso.
		Berrien County, Georgia and Berrien County, Michigan (settled when he was attorney general), are named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_M._Berrien (348 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856)
		John Berrien was an eloquent lawyer, a U.S. senator, and the attorney general of the United States during President Andrew Jackson's administration.
		In 1822 and 1823 John Berrien represented Chatham County in the Georgia senate.
		Berrien returned to the U.S. Senate in 1841 and served in that body until 1852, when his bid for reelection was defeated by Robert Toombs.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3239 (751 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Berrien County
		Berrien is Georgia's 116th county, with an area of 452 square miles.
		The county was named for John Macpherson Berrien, a Savannah lawyer who served variously as a judge (with a stint on the Supreme Court of Georgia), a state senator, a U.S. senator, and the U.S. attorney general under President Andrew Jackson.
		Informally, Berrien styles itself the "Bell Pepper Capital of the World," and the economy of the county is primarily agricultural, concentrating on tobacco, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, vegetables, hogs, beef, and forest products.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2295 (761 words)

	American President
		John MacPherson Berrien was born in 1781 in Rocky Hill, New Jersey.
		Berrien began his law practice in 1799, at the age of 18, and worked as a private attorney until 1810 when he assumed the judgeship of the Eastern District of Georgia.
		Berrien then returned to private practice but headed back to Washington, D.C., in 1841 as a Whig in the United States Senate, and he stayed in that post until 1852.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjackson/cabinet/AttorneyGeneral/JohnMBerrien/email.html (159 words)

	Welcome to the Berrien Family Genealogical Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Berrien, became a merchant in New York City, and he appears at one time to have commanded a vessel.
		John Macpherson Berrien, has long been identified with local politics, being the Republican leader in the district.
		Berrien has drawn to him hosts of friends, and is easily one of the most popular men in the county.
	www.dennisberrien.com /notes3.html (280 words)

	Berrien, John Macpherson: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		John Macpherson Berrien served as U.S. attorney general under President ANDREW JACKSON.
		Berrien was born August 23, 1781, in New Jersey.
		Berrien sat in the Georgia Senate from 1822 to 1823.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/berrien-john-macpherson (166 words)

	Andrew Jackson
		John Rhea [a mutual confidant]) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Monroe gave Jackson orders that were purposely ambiguous, sufficient for international denials.
		About this case, Jackson is often quoted as having said, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" Jackson probably never said this; the popular story that Jackson defied the Supreme Court in carrying out Indian Removal is untrue.
		John Samuel Donelson, Daniel Donelson, and Andrew Jackson Donelson were the sons of Rachel's brother Samuel Donelson who died in 1804.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andrew_jackson.html (4086 words)

	BERRIEN, John Macpherson (1781-1856) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		“John Macpherson Berrien of Georgia (1781-1856): A Political Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1971.
		“John Macpherson Berrien and the Know-Nothing Movement in Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (Spring 1977): 35-42.
		John MacPherson Berrien Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=B000413 (245 words)

	Digital Library of Georgia
		This is a letter dated May 18, 1826 from John Macpherson Berrien, U.S. Senator from Georgia, to George Troup, Governor of Georgia (1823-1827), regarding the continued deliberations of Congress on the Treaty of Washington, D.C. with the Creeks.
		Berrien reports that when the appropriations bill associated with the treaty came under consideration, it was discovered that a "corrupt" agreement had been made to deliver the majority of the funds to the McIntosh delegation (those Creeks associated with the late William McIntosh).
		Berrien informs Troup that he is a member of a committee appointed to investigate the matter and laments the continued association of the treaty with fraud and partisanship.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /meta/html/dlg/zlna/meta_dlg_zlna_tcc689.html (321 words)

	John Macpherson Berrien
		BERRIEN, John Macpherson, statesman, born in New Jersey, 23 August 1781; died in Savannah, Georgia, 1 January 1856.
		He was a son of Major John Berrien, who served in the war of independence.
		He was graduated at Princeton in 1796, was admitted to the bar of Georgia at the age of eighteen, and attained a high reputation as a lawyer.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnmacphersonberrien (388 words)

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		Berrien attended preparatory school in New York and was graduated from Princeton in 1796.
		Berrien was again elected to the United States Senate as a Whig in 1841.
		The papers from 1880 to 1938 are those of Lawrence Cecil Berrien, John M. Berrien's son, and his family and are generally concerned with legal and family matters.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/b/Berrien,John_McPherson (1002 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		In 1775 John Berrien of New Jersey came to the province of Georgia, where one of his mother's kin had previously settled.
		His father, John Berrien (1711-1772), was a judge of the supreme court of New Jersey and a trustee of Princeton College.
		After the Revolution Berrien returned to Georgia with his family, which included his young son, John MacPherson Berrien, who was destined to become one of Georgia's most illustrious statesmen.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/johnberrienhistmarker.htm (226 words)

	Nashville Gerogia
		Reportedly, a log schoolhouse served as the county's temporary courthouse until a two-story wooden structure was built in 1858.
		Berrien County was created on Feb. 25, 1856 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1855-56, p.
		Berrien County was named for former U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General, and Georgia politician John Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856).
	history.ucan.us /nashvillega.htm (255 words)

	Our Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Berrien County Court House on the square in Nashville, GA This jail was built in 1903 of brick and was used for over 60 years.
		Dogwood Tree Blooms in March in Nashville, GA Berrien County, created by Act of Feb. 25, 1856, was named for John MacPherson Berrien, “the American Cicero,” who was born Aug. 23, 1781 and died Jan. 1, 1856.
		The Bank of Alapaha is the oldest bank in Berrien County; the charter was granted in 1905.
	www.promotega.org /vsu30005/our_community.htm (1666 words)

	Biographies of the Attorneys General
		John Breckenridge was born in Augusta County, near Staunton, Virginia, on December 2, 1760.
		John Jordan Crittenden was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, on September 10, 1787.
		John Sargent was born in Ludlow, Vermont, on October 12, 1860.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm (12842 words)

	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 : a machine readable transcription.
		John Davis, elected a Senator by the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon.
		John Macpherson Berrien, elected a Senator by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the said John Macpherson Berrien; which were read; and the oath prescribed by law was administered to Mr.
		John M. Clayton presented a resolution passed by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, requesting the Senators and Representative of that State in Congress to endeavor to procure an appropriation for improving the harbor at the mouth of Mahon's river: which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
	memory.loc.gov /ll/llsj/037/llsj037.sgm (15106 words)

	John MacPherson Berrien (John Berrien)
		John McPherson Berrien, Robert Walker, Young Gresham and Stephen W. Harris rule a law passed by the general assembly was illegal.
		Berrien was a strong advocate of states rights, which made him popular with the wealthy coastal planters and others who made money on international trade.
		Following the disastrous election of 1852, when Franklin Pierce defeated Winfield Scott, Berrien and his fellow Georgia Whigs joined the American Party, sometimes called the "Know Nothings." The anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic stance alienated the aging Berrien, but it was the strongest party other than the Democrats in Georgia.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/1580 (526 words)

	Princeton Alumni Weekly: Features Web Exclusives
		In his investigation, Lumpkin enlisted the aid of John MacPherson Berrien, a Princeton graduate in 1796, who was then in the U. senate and was later attorney general in Andrew Jackson’s cabinet.
		Troup was succeeded as governor in 1827 by John Forsyth, a member of the class of 1799 at Princeton, who had previously served in the U.S. senate and as minister to Spain.
		Thus, beginning with Berrien’s election in 1825, followed by Forsyth’s in 1829 and Cuthbert’s in 1834, the same Georgia seat in the senate was held continuously by Princetonians for a total of nineteen years.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/web_exclusives/more/more_georgia.html (2398 words)

	The slave ship Antelope
		An American named John Smith then took command of the Antelope, with its remaining crew and prisoners and proceeded to the United States along the Florida coast, where the crew and the African slaves were apprehended by Captain John Jackson.
		----John Macpherson Berrien Judge of for the Eastern Circuit; lawyer for Captain Jackson; and the man who argued for the Spanish when the case was taken to the Supreme Court.
		John Macpherson Berrien and Charles Ingersoll represented Spain.
	pages.prodigy.net /jkess3/Antelope.htm (1450 words)

	Digital Library of Georgia
		This letter from John Macpherson Berrien, U.S. Senator from Georgia, to George Troup, Governor of Georgia (1823-1827), is dated April 22, 1826.
		Berrien reports to Troup on the Senate's proclamation of the Treaty of Washington, D.C. with the Creek Indians (signed January 24, 1826), which nullified the Treaty of Indian Springs (February 12, 1825).
		Berrien indicates his dissatisfaction with the nullification of the Indian Springs treaty, which had ceded all remaining Creek lands in Georgia, and asserts that it was unnecessary to void the treaty.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /meta/html/dlg/zlna/meta_dlg_zlna_tcc686.html (332 words)

	AIB
		It was built in 1761 by John Macpherson out of a fortune he had made as a privateer captain.
		John was born in 1754 and studied law in London before returning to Philadelphia.
		Margaret settled in Georgia with her husband John Berrien, where their son John Macpherson Berrien was born.
	www.kintyremag.co.uk /2000/41/page11.html (637 words)

	John Forsyth (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Forsyth (October 22, 1780 – October 21, 1841) was a 19th century American politician from Georgia.
		Led the pro-removal reply to Frelinghuysen about the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
		In the 1997 Steven Spielberg movie, Armistad, John Forsyth's character was played by American character actor David Paymer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Forsyth_(politician) (363 words)

	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 : a machine readable transcription.
		John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, on the subject of a ship channel to unite the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, having date 30th June, 1849, if in, his opinion such communication can be made without injury to the public interest.
		Downs presented the petition of John Ervin, a settler on the Bastrop grant, praying to be allowed a section of land in lieu of the land of which he has been dispossessed by the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.
		John S. Thrasher, in the dungeons of the Punta Castle, in the city of Havana and island of Cuba.
	memory.loc.gov /ll/llsj/043/llsj043.sgm (15258 words)

	AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: JOHN M. BERRIEN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 09/05/1855
		JOHN M. Jackson's former Attorney General asks a Philadelphia doctor to take care of his ill daughter.
		I sent her, with her sister, to these ladies in the spring...I have been surprised to learn within a few days, that Sallie is suffering with what her physician Doct Beardsley supposes to be prolapsus uteri.
		Meigs was most probably DR. JAMES AITKEN MEIGS (1829-1879) who was, at the time of this letter, a lecturer on climatology and physiology at Franklin Institute and physician to the department of diseases of the chest in Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2005/lawmakers/17133-JOHN-M-BERRIEN.htm (269 words)

	Demon Of Discord - Ratification and Suppression of the Original Thirteenth Amendment
		John Coalter and Spencer Roane continued their service in the courts of Virginia after the Code was published.
		Had John Quincy Adams, James Asheton Bayard [40], Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin not secured a treaty of peace, a separate, Federalist confederacy in New England was an even-money proposition.
		John A. Quitman, the Governor of Mississippi, "and a group of revolutionaries who sailed from New Orleans to Cuba [sought] to overthrow the Spanish government and annex [the island] to the United States." So writes Eli N. Evans, author of a laudatory biography of Judah P. Benjamin.
	www.rightsofthepeople.com /freedom_documents/constitution_study/orig13threality.html (13798 words)

	Welcome to my Web site
		Berrien County, was created February 25, 1856 from Lowndes, Irwin, and Coffee counties.
		Berrien County was named for John MacPherson Berrien, U. Senator from Georgia and Attorney General under Andrew Jackson.
		The Alapaha River, which flows through Berrien County, was named by Creek Indians who once lived there, means "smiling sunshine" or "laughing water".
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ga/county/berrien (343 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		John Macpherson Berrien was born in New Jersey in 1781; his family moved to Georgia the following year.
		Berrien served Georgia as a United States Senator on three separate occasions, was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Andrew Jackson, and served on the Georgia Supreme Court.
		He died in 1855; Berrien County was named in his honor the following year.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/johnberrien.htm (69 words)

	Valdosta Daily Times - Our Opinion: Berrien County celebrating 150 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Berrien County concludes its sesquicentennial celebration this Saturday with an Old-Fashioned Day featuring a parade, music, historical exhibits, fireworks and more.
		“The county was named for John Macpherson Berrien, a Savannah lawyer who served variously as a judge (with a stint on the Supreme Court of Georgia), a state senator, a U.S. senator, and the U.S. attorney general under President Andrew Jackson,”; according to the Internet’s The New Georgia Encyclopedia.
		Berrien County through its history has maintained its agricultural heritage, with farms still producing tobacco, peanuts, soybeans, cotton and other crops.
	www.valdostadailytimes.com /opinion/local_story_123233404.html (328 words)

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