Lawrence, Alexander A., 1906-1979

A PRESENT FOR MR. LINCOLN was published in 1961 by Ardivan Press.

This book was first published in 1951 by the University of Georgia Press. It was reprinted in 1968 by the University of Georgia Press and again in 1979 by Tara Press (Savannah, Ga.).

Alexander Atkinson Lawrence (1906-1979) was born in Savannah, Georgia, on December 28, 1906. He was the son of Alexander Atkinson Lawrence and Isabel Ashby Paine. He attended Massie School (Savannah, Ga.) and Woodberry Forest Preparatory (Orange, Virginia). He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 1929 and read law in his father's Savannah law office, Lawrence and Abrahams. He married Margaret Adams on April 18, 1933, and they had two children. From 1930-1969, Alexander Lawrence practiced law in Savannah as a partner in the firm of Bouhan, Lawrence, Williams, and Levy and established a wide reputation in the legal profession. He engaged in mainly civil cases and represented some of Savannah's major insurance, utility and railroad companies. In 1968, he was nominated to the bench of the Federal District Court of South Georgia. As judge he faced the issue of the desegregation of the Savannah-Chatham County public school system. One of his highest profile civil-damages case grew out of the February 1971 explosion at the Thiokol Chemical Corporation in Woodbine, Georgia. Lawrence served as president of the Georgia and Savannah bar associations. He was a member of the Georgia Bar Examiners' Board, the American College of Trial lawyers, Georgia Historical Commission, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of the Cincinnati, and he served as president of the Georgia Historical Society from 1945 until 1952. He was an active participant in the historic preservation movement in Savannah. Lawrence possessed a great interest in history and wrote several works. His first, James Moore Wayne, Southern Unionist (1943), was a biography of a Savannahian who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1835-1867 but refused to join in secession in 1861. His most popular work, Storm Over Savannah (1951; rev. 1979), recounted the siege of the city in 1779. Lawrence's Present for Mr. Lincoln (1961) received an award from the American Association of State and Local History. Other works include: James Johnston, Georgia's First Printer (1956), and A History of the Georgia Supreme Court (1948). Alexander Atkinson Lawrence died on August 20, 1979.

This book was first published in 1943 by the University of North Carolina Press. It was reprinted in 1970 by Greenwood Press.

Sir Archibald Campbell (1739-1791) was born in Scotland and served with the Army and the East India Company in the West Indies and Bengal before the American Revolution. Campbell was Lt. Col. of the British 71st Regiment during the Revolution, and he was in command of the 1778 expedition against Georgia. He captured Savannah in December 1778 and remained as commanding officer in Georgia until he returned to England in 1779. He was a member of Parliament, 1774-1780.