Daniel Newnan
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district |
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In office March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Eaton Haynes |
| Succeeded by | John E. Coffee |
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| Born | 1780 Salisbury, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | January 16, 1851 Rossville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Newnan Springs Cemetery, Catoosa County, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Jacksonian Democrat |
Daniel Newnan (1780 – January 16, 1851) was an American politician and military commander in North Carolina and Georgia.
Born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1780, Newnan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1796 and 1797. He was commissioned as an ensign and second lieutenant in the Fourth United States Infantry on March 3, 1799, promoted to first lieutenant the following November and resigned on January 1, 1801.
Newnan was adjutant general of Georgia from 1806 to 1817. In June 1812 Newnan (with the rank of Colonel) led two dragoons and 250 infantry of the Georgia militia to join the Patriot Army in Florida. The Patriot Army was a group of American adventurers, primarily from Georgia, that was attempting to seize Spanish Florida. Newnan led an expedition into the interior of Florida in September to find and punish Seminoles who had attacked the Americans in Florida. His force consisted of 117 men, only 78 of whom were from the Georgia militia (the others had refused to extend their short-term enlistments). Newnan's company unexpectedly encountered a band of Alachua Seminoles led by King Payne. The ensuing battle quickly became a stalemate, and Newnan's force was pinned down for nine days before withdrawing. During the Creek War, Newnan commanded a group of Georgia Volunteers; he fought the British at the Battle of Fort Peter. After the war, he lived on a plantation near McDonough, Georgia. He was commissioned a major general over the third division of the Georgia Militia in 1817.
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