George Washington Bonaparte Towns (4 May 1801-15 July 1854) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA AL) from 4 March 1835 to 1 September 1836 (succeeding Augustin Smith Clayton and preceding Julius Caesar Alford) and from 4 March 1837 to 4 March 1839 (succeeding Alford and preceding Thomas Butler King) and from GA-3 from 5 January 1846 to 4 March 1847 (preceding John William Jones), and Governor of Georgia from 3 November 1847 to 5 November 1851 (succeeding George W. Crawford and preceding Howell Cobb).
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George Washington Bonaparte Towns was born in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1801, and he was raised in Eatonton before becoming a lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama in 1824. He moved back to Georgia a few years later and cofounded Talbotton, serving as one of its original town commissioners. He was elected to the State House at the age of 22 and staunchly opposed nullification, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1835 to 1836, from 1837 to 1839, and from 1846 to 1847, and as Governor from 1847 to 1851. He died in Macon in 1854.