John Milledge (1757-9 February 1818) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's 1st district from 22 November 1792 to 3 March 1793 (succeeding Anthony Wayne) and from the at-large district from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1799 (succeeding Thomas P. Carnes and preceding Benjamin Taliaferro), Governor of Georgia from 4 November 1802 to 23 September 1806 (succeeding Josiah Tattnall and preceding Jared Irwin), and a US Senator from 19 June 1806 to 14 November 1809 (succeeding James Jackson and preceding Charles Tait). He was a Democratic-Republican, and he founded Athens, Georgia in 1801.
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John Milledge was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1757, and he rose to the rank of colonel in the Georgia militia during the American Revolutionary War. A lawyer by trade, Milledge was elected to the General Assembly in 1779, and he served as Attorney General of Georgia from 1780 to 1781. In 1792, he was elected to fill the vacancy in the US House of Representatives caused by a dispute over Anthony Wayne's residency, and he served until 1793. From 1795 to 1799, he represented Georgia's at-large district. Milledge went on to serve as Governor from 1802 to 1802 and in the US Senate from 1806 to 1809, filling the vacancy caused by the death of James Jackson. He resigned in 1809, and he died in 1818.