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This first president of the University of Georgia has another college and Georgia county named after him, and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress from 1789 to 1807.

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Abraham Baldwin

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Abraham Baldwin was the first president of the University of Georgia and also has another college and county named after him. He was also both a congressman and a senator.

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In addition to his accomplishments above, Abraham Baldwin was a chaplain for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war and he became a lawyer as well. He was one of the founding fathers representing Georgia at the Constitutional Convention. He also set out to improve the educational system in Georgia. He was one of seven men appointed in 1784 to oversee the founding of Franklin College. It was modeled after Yale, Baldwin's alma mater, and it would later evolve in the University of Georgia. The college named after him is Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia.

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