Abraham
Baldwin
1754-1807 —
Clergyman, lawyer
. . . tutor at Yale; chaplain in Continental Army
. . . Served in Georgia Legislature. . . Author of Charter and President of
University of Georgia . . . Served in the Continental Congress (1785, 1788) .
. . As Deputy to Constitutional Convention, he helped resolve the large-small
state representation crisis . . . Congressman (1789-99) . . . United States Senator
(1799-1807)[15,16]
"It should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality, and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society, that by instruction they may be molded to the love of virtue and good order."[44]