Abraham Baldwin
Georgia founder and Constitution signer who served in the House and then the Senate for eighteen years.
Overview
Baldwin, a Yale-educated minister turned lawyer, moved to Georgia, served in the Continental Congress, and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where he sided with the small states in the crucial early vote over representation that led to the Connecticut Compromise. He was elected to the first four Congresses in the House, 1789 to 1799, where he supported the Hamiltonian fiscal program, then to the Senate from 1799 until his death in 1807, serving briefly as president pro tempore in 1801. He also wrote the charter of the University of Georgia, the first state-chartered university in America.
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