Toombs, Robert
soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born July 2, 1810, in Wilkes county, Ga.
In 1837 he was elected to the legislature from his nativecounty, and, with the exception of 1841, continued a member of the lower branch until his election to the federal house of representatives, where he served during the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, and thirty-second congresses. He entered the senate during the thirty-third congress for six years, and was re-elected for a second term ending March 4, 1865. He was expelled in 1861, and became secretary of state in the confederate government. He was also brigadier-general in the great rebellion.
He died Dec. 14, 1885, in Washington, D. C. a