John W. A. Sanford Sr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district | |
| In office March 4, 1835 – July 25, 1835 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Henry Wilde |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Glascock |
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| Born | August 28, 1798 Milledgeville, Georgia |
| Died | September 12, 1870 (aged 72) Milledgeville, Georgia |
| Resting place | Memory Hill Cemetery |
| Political party | Jacksonian Democrat |
John W. A. Sanford Sr. (August 28, 1798 – September 12, 1870) was a plantation manager, military officer, land agent, and politician from Georgia. He served as Secretary of State of Georgia and in the United States House of Representatives.
Sanford was born near Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1798. He attended Yale University and was a farmer. In 1832, he was elected a major general, 3rd Division Georgia Militia, by the Georgia Legislature.[1] In 1834, Sanford was elected as a Jacksonian Representative from Georgia to the 24th United States Congress, but he resigned before the end of his term to participate in the removal of the Cherokee from the state. His congressional service spanned from March 4, 1835, to July 2, 1835.
After serving in the Creek War of 1836 as a major general,[2] Sanford was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1837; however, he resigned before that session of the state Senate began. From 1841 to 1843, Sanford was the Secretary of State of Georgia. He also was a member of the state convention of 1850. Sanford served as secession commissioner from Georgia to the State of Texas in 1861. Sanford died in Milledgeville on September 12, 1870, and was buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville.
His Sanford Emigrating Company was contracted to remove Creek Native Americans.[3] He advocated for Americans to own slaves and denounced any laws protecting fugitive slaves as unconstitutional.[4] Sanford testified he owned about 56 slaves.[5]
Sanford married Mary Ann Ridley (born 1802) daughter of Richard Augustus Blount and Mary Edmunds née Dawson Blount. She inherited plantation lands and slaves from her father.[5] His son John W. A. Sanford Jr. later served as Attorney General of Alabama.
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I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers. Air Force interest in this problem has been due to our feeling of an obligation to identify and analyze to the best of our ability, anything in the air that may have the possibility of threat or menace to the United States. In pursuit of this obligation since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one and two thousand reports that have come to us from all kinds of sources Of this great mess of reports we have been able adequately to explain the great bulk of them, explain them to our own satisfaction we've been able to explain them as hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft, as meteorological or electronic phenomena, or as light aberration however, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things. It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve. Our basic difficulty in dealing with these is that there is no measurement of them that makes it possible for us to put them in any pattern that would be profitable for a deliberate custom sort of analysis to take the next step. We have as a date come to only one firm conclusion with respect to this remaining percentage and that is that it does not contain any pattern or purpose or of consistency that we can relate with any to any conceivable threat to the United States is that (inaudible) we can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret development by any department of the United States (inaudible) we can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret development by any agency of the United States I'll start when you throw down (coughing) (inaudible) yeah Major Keyhoe, as author of the book "Flying Saucers are Real," what is your opinion of these new sightings of unidentified object? With all due respect to the Air Force, I believe that some of them will prove to be of interplanetary origin. During a three-year investigation I found that many powers have described objects of substanc and high-speed one case filed this report another plane was buffeted by an object with an estimated five hundred miles an hour obviously this was a solid object and I believe it was from outer space
Notes and references
- ^ Smith, p. 335
- ^ Smith, pp. 335–336
- ^ Littlefield, Daniel F. Jr.; Parins, James W. (January 19, 2011). Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313360428 – via Google Books.
- ^ Avery, Isaac Wheeler (December 13, 1881). The History of the State of Georgia from 1850 to 1881: Embracing the Three Important Epochs: the Decade Before the War of 1861-5; the War; the Period of Reconstruction. Brown & Derby. ISBN 9780404045715 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Court, Georgia Supreme (December 13, 1918). "Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..." Edward O. Jenkins – via Google Books.
Additional sources
- United States Congress. "John W. A. Sanford (id: S000049)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Smith, Gordon Burns, History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861, Volume One, Campaigns and Generals, Milledgeville: Boyd Publishing, 2000. ASIN:B003L1PRKI.
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