Colquitt, Walter T
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1799, in Halifax county, Va. He served as a brigadier-general of militia at the age of twenty-one, and in 1826 was appointed a district judge, and held the first court ever held in Columbus.
He was appointed to the same office in 1829, and was a member of the state senate in 1834 and 1837. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1839 to 1843; and a senator in congress from 1843 to 1849. He died May 7, 1855, in Macon, Ga.