CLINCH, Duncan Lamont, a
Representative from Georgia; born at “Ard-Lamont,” Edgecombe County,
N.C., April 6, 1787; entered the United States Army as first lieutenant
of the Third Infantry July 1, 1808; promoted to captain December 31,
1810; appointed lieutenant colonel of the Forty-Third Regiment, United
States Infantry, August 4, 1813; appointed colonel of the Eighth
Regiment, United States Infantry, April 20, 1819; attained the rank of
brigadier general April 20, 1829; commanded at the Battle of
Ouithlacoochee against the Seminole Indians December 31, 1835; resigned
September 21, 1836, and settled on a plantation near St. Marys, Ga.;
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John Millen and served from February 15, 1844, to
March 3, 1845; died in Macon, Ga., November 27, 1849; interment in
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
Bibliography
Patrick, Rembert Wallace. Aristocrat in Uniform, General Duncan L.
Clinch. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963. |
