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John Billups (Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, planter and president of Georgia Senate )

b. 1802-06-11 d. 1872-02-13

Athens, Georgia, planter and president of Georgia senate. Georgia native. Married to Anna M. Billups. Father of Anna Y. Billups, Thomas C. Billups, William Billups, John Billups, Henry C. Billups, and Sarah J. Billups. Planter in Athens in 1850. Farmer in Athens in 1860. Elected president of the Georgia senate on November 6, 1861. Captain of Athens militia (C.S.A.) in spring 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, p. 40.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, p. 439.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, p. 1053.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, p. 12.

Find A Grave, "John Billups (1802-1872)," Memorial #44527912, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44527912 (accessed January 28, 2020).

Lucian Lamar Knight, A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (New York, NY: The Lewis Company Publishing, 1917), 764.

John F. Stegman, These Men She Gave: Civil War Diary of Athens, Georgia (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 108.

KYR-0004-033-0037.

Citation

Billups, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211386 (November 12, 2026).

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