Abraham Baldwin (22 November 1754 – 4 March 1807) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's 2nd district from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793 and from the at-large district from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1799 (succeeding James Jones), as well as a US Senator from 4 March 1799 to 4 March 1807 (succeeding Josiah Tattnall and preceding George Jones). He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.
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Abraham Baldwin was born in Guilford, Connecticut in 1754, the half-brother of US Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin. In 1775, he became a minister, and he served as a chaplain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, Governor Lyman Hall recrutied Baldwin to work for the Georgia government in developing a state education plan, and Baldwin served as one of Georgia's delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. In 1785, he became the first President of the University of Georgia, serving until 1801. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1799, and in the US Senate from 1799 to 1807, dying in office exactly eight years into his terms.