Abraham Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father

by E. Merton Coulter

Abraham Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father is the definitive biography of Abraham Baldwin, a highly significant early-American leader who helped assemble the framework of American democracy and who may be the least known signer of the Constitution. Baldwin served as a Georgia State Legislator, as a State Representative to the Confederation Congress, the Constitutional Convention, first president of the University of Georgia, a Representative in the First U.S. Congress, and later as a U.S. Senator. It is must reading for laymen and historians alike. The book presents a graphic portrait of a man whose amazingly broad scope and vision left a lasting mark on his country and his adopted state of Georgia.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 1987

About the author

Ellis Merton Coulter was an American historian of the South, author, and a founding member of the Southern Historical Association.