George Corbin Washington (August 20, 1789 – July 17, 1854) was a

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from the third and fifth districts of

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, serving four terms from 1827 to 1833, and 1835 to 1837.

Early life and education

Washington was born at Haywood Farms near Oak Grove in

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, the son of William Augustine Washington and his first wife Jane Washington. He attended Phillips Academy and

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, studied law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits on his plantation in Maryland. He was a grandnephew of

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, as the grandson of George's half-brother Augustine Jr. (on his father’s side) and of George’s brother

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(on his mother’s side).

Career

He resided for the most part at Dumbarton Heights in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C., and served in the

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1816-1819. Washington was elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses, serving three terms from March 4, 1827, until March 3, 1833. In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia during the Twenty-second Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1832, but was elected two years later as an

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to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837, and following that he was not a candidate for renomination. After his service in Congress, Washington became president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. He was also appointed by President

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in 1844 as a commissioner to adjust and settle the claims arising under the treaty of 1835 with the

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of the Cherokee Nation. In 1852, he was nominated by the Know Nothings as a candidate for vice president on a ticket with

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. Upon Webster's death nine days before the election, the ticket was replaced by

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and

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Death

He died on July 17, 1854, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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