The Political Graveyard: Taliaferro County, Ga.

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Taliaferro County
Georgia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Taliaferro County

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Liberty Hall Cemetery
Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia

Politicians buried here:

Linton Stephens (1823-1872) — of Taliaferro County, Ga.; Sparta, Hancock County, Ga. Born near Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Ga., July 1, 1823. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1849, 1863; member of Georgia state senate, 1853-55; candidate for U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1855, 1857; justice of Georgia state supreme court, 1859-60; delegate to Georgia secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Sparta, Hancock County, Ga., July 14, 1872 (age 49 years, 13 days). Original interment at Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, Ga.; reinterment in 1914 at Liberty Hall Cemetery.

Relatives: Half-brother of Alexander Hamilton Stephens. See Stephens family of Georgia.

Politicians formerly buried here:

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) — also known as Alexander H. Stephens — of Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Ga. Born near Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Ga., February 11, 1812. Democrat. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1836; member of Georgia state senate, 1842; U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1843-59, 1873-82 (at-large 1843-45, 7th District 1845-53, 8th District 1853-59, 1873-82); Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1860; delegate to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Vice President of the Confederacy, 1861-65; candidate for U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1872; Governor of Georgia, 1882-83; died in office 1883. His portrait appeared on Confederate States $20 notes in 1861-64. Died in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., March 4, 1883 (age 71 years, 21 days). Originally entombed at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.; later interred at Liberty Hall Cemetery.

		Presumably named for: Alexander Hamilton
		Relatives: Half-brother of Linton Stephens; great-granduncle of Robert Grier Stephens, Jr.. See Stephens family of Georgia.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier
		Books about Alexander H. Stephens: Thomas E. Schott, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia : A Biography — William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens
		Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)

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