Thomas U. P. Charlton
Thomas U. P. Charlton (Thomas Usher Pulaski Charlton) was an American writer and public servant in Savannah, Georgia. He was born in November 1779 in Camden, South Carolina, to Thomas Charlton Sr. and Lucy Kenan, and died on December 21, 1835, in Savannah at age 56.
He studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1800. By age 21, he was a member of the Georgia State Legislature, and in 1808 he became judge of the Eastern Circuit. In 1809, he published The Life of Major General James Jackson. He was a close friend of James Jackson and Governor John Milledge.
Charlton served as Savannah’s mayor for two terms, from 1815 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1821. He was married three times: first to Emily Walter (married 1803; she died in 1808), then to Ellen Glasco (died 1820), and finally to Clementine Helena LeFebrve (married 1828; she survived him). Emily Walter’s father was botanist Thomas Walter, who died when Charlton was young.
He had at least two sons: Robert M. Charlton, who became a U.S. senator, and Thomas Jackson Charlton, who died age 29, two months before his father.
Charlton was buried in Colonial Park Cemetery, but his remains were moved in 1853 to Laurel Grove Cemetery after Colonial Park closed. Savannah’s Charlton Street is named in his honor.
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