George Augustus Waggaman (1782March 31, 1843) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, he completed preparatory studies under private

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s, studied law, and was admitted to the

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in Caroline County in 1811. He served in the

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under General

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and settled in

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, commencing the practice of law in 1813. He was

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of the third district of Louisiana in 1813, judge of the third judicial circuit court in 1818, and assistant judge of the criminal court in New Orleans in 1819. He was interested in sugarcane growing and held the office of

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from 1830 to 1831. Waggaman was elected as an

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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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and served from November 15, 1831, to March 4, 1835. He resumed the practice of law in New Orleans and again engaged in

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planting. He participated as a principal in a

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with the former mayor of New Orleans, Denis Prieur, a political adversary, and received injuries from which he died in New Orleans in 1843; interment was in

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. In 1840, Waggaman's daughter Christine eloped with a young Canadian lawyer,

John Sandfield Macdonald John Sandfield Macdonald, (December 12, 1812 – June 1, 1872) was the joint premier of the Province of Canada from 1862 to 1864. He was also the first premier of Ontario from 1867 to 1871, one of the four founding provinces created at Conf ...

, who made regular trips to Washington on behalf of the government of

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as Queen's messenger. She joined Macdonald in Upper Canada. He would go on to be joint Premier of the

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and the first Premier of

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.Bruce W. Hodgins, "John Sandfield Macdonald", in J.M.S. Careless (ed.), ''The Pre-Confederation Premiers: Ontario Government Leaders 1841–1867'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), pp. 248–249.

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