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Line 1: {{Short description\|American politician}} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000346. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox ~~Congressman~~officeholder \| name = Andrew Robison Govan \| image = Line 26 ⟶ 27: }} '''Andrew Robison Govan''' (January 13, 1794 – June 27, 1841) was an American who served as a [[United States House of Representatives\|U.S. Representative]] from [[South Carolina]] from 1822 to 1827. == Biography == Born in Orange Parish, [[Orangeburg County, South Carolina\|Orangeburg District, South Carolina]], Govan pursued [[Classics\|classical studies]] at a [[private school]] in [[Willington, South Carolina]], and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1813. He served as member of the [[South Carolina House of Representatives\|State house of representatives]] 1820–1821. === Congress === Govan was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party\|Democratic-Republican]] to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Overstreet. Govan was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress, and served from December 4, 1822, to March 3, 1827. === After Congress === He moved to Mississippi in 1828 and devoted the remainder of his life to planting. === Death and burial === He died in [[Marshall County, Mississippi]], June 27, 1841. He was interred in the family cemetery on the estate, "Snowdown" plantation in Marshall County. He was the father of [[George M. Govan]] (1840-1899), who was the 27th [[Secretary of State of Mississippi]], serving from 1886 to 1896.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Rowland\|first=Dunbar\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fExAQAAMAAJ~~&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA793~~&dq=george+m.+govan&hlpg=~~en#v=onepage&q=george%20m.%20govan&f=false~~PA793\|title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form\|date=1907\|publisher=Southern Historical Publishing Association\|language=en}}</ref> ==Sources== Line 59 ⟶ 66: [[Category:1794 births]] [[Category:1841 deaths]] [[Category:~~Members~~Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina]] [[Category:Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina ~~Jacksonians~~]] [[Category:~~South~~19th-century ~~Carolina~~American ~~Democratic-Republicans~~legislators]] ~~[[Category:Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives]]~~ ~~[[Category:Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives]]~~ ~~[[Category:19th-century American politicians]]~~ [[Category:People from Orangeburg County, South Carolina]]