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Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama
George Goldthwaite
(December 10, 1809 – March 16, 1879) was an
Alabama Supreme Court
justice and
U.S. senator
for
Alabama
. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877, and did not run for reelection.
He was a native of
Boston, Massachusetts
. He succeeded
William P. Chilton
as Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama
in 1856. State legislators from Alabama wrote to the U.S. Senate in protest of his election stating he did not receive a majority of the votes from state legislators and was therefore not elected legitimately.
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He was seated and remained in office.
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A great-grandson,
George G. Siebels, Jr.
, was a 20th-century mayor of
Birmingham
and a member of the
Alabama House of Representatives
. Another descendant,
Alfred Goldthwaite
, was a state representative from
Montgomery
and a state chairman of the
Alabama Republican Party
.
In 1853 he ruled that a freed woman in Ohio could be returned so slavery to satisfy the debts of her former owner but that her son could not.
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