Andrew Robison Govan (January 13, 1794 – June 27, 1841) was a

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. Born in Orange Parish, Orangeburg District, South Carolina, Govan pursued

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, and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1813. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1820–1821. Govan was elected as a

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to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Overstreet. Govan was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress, and served from December 4, 1822, to March 3, 1827. He moved to Mississippi in 1828 and devoted the remainder of his life to planting. He died in

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, June 27, 1841. He was interred in the family cemetery on the estate, "Snowdown" plantation in Marshall County. He was the father of George M. Govan (1840-1899), who was the 27th

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, serving from 1886 to 1896.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Govan, Andrew Robison 1794 births 1841 deaths Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 19th-century American politicians People from Orangeburg County, South Carolina