Our History
Our Chapter was named in honor of Abraham Baldwin who was born
in 1754.
He graduated from Yale College at age 18 and was admitted to the
bar in 1784. Three months later, he was elected to the State
Legislature and became the father of our University System, University of Georgia. He was also a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 and helped to draft the U. S.
Constitution, which he signed.
Abraham Baldwin was elected to the U. S. Congress in 1788. After
that, he was re-elected to the House of Representatives every
two years. Then in 1798, he was elected to the U. S. Senate,
where he served as a senator, until 1807 when he died.
Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography; Furlong, Patrick J. "Abraham Baldwin: A Georgia Yankee as Old-Congress Man." Georgia Historical Quarterly 56 (Spring 1972): 51-71; Coulter, E. Merton. Abraham Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father. Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press, 1987. The content contained
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