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Lumpkin, John Henry

lawyer, leg-- islator, congressman, was born June 13,. 1812, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He served as secretary in the executive department of Georgia; and was elected to the state legislature in 1853. In 1838 he was solicitorgeneral of the Cherokee circuit. He was a. representative in congress from Georgia. from 1843 to 1849, and also elected to the thirty-fourth congress. For three years. he held the office of judge of the Cherokee circuit court, and that of judge of the supreme court of the state. He died June 6, 1860, in Rome, Ga.