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Image of a head-and-shoulders sketch of George Washington Bonaparte Towns. George W. Towns, a lawyer, legislator, and U.S. congressman, served as Georgia's governor from 1847 to 1851. A Unionist and staunch opponent of nullification when he entered politics in 1829, Towns became governor two decades later as a "fire-eating" secessionist who believed that the federal government was controlled by fanatical northern abolitionists determined to ruin and subjugate the South.
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