Emanuel,  David,  sixth  governor  of  Georgia,  was  born  in  1742.
He  settled  in  Burke  county  about  1768  and  took  active  part  in  the
Revolution.  After  the  war  he  represented  his  county  in  the  legis-
lature for  several  years,  acting  on  the  committee  which  in  1796  ex-
amined into  and  reported  against  the  Yazoo  land  grants.  Later
he  became  president  of  the  senate,  and  in  1801  was  elected  gover-
nor of  the  state.     His  death  occurred  in  Burke  county,  in  1808.
Embassadors. — Georgia  has  been  several  times  represented  in
the  diplomatic  service  of  the  United  States.  On  April  9,  1813,
William  H.  Crawford  was  commissioned  minister  plenipotentiary
to  France  by  President  Madison;  in  1845  William  H.  Stiles  was


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appointed  minister  to  Austria  by  President  James  K.  Polk ;  to  this
same  position  Henry  R.  Jackson  was  appointed  by  President
Pierce  in  1853,  and  Alexander  R.  Lawton  was  also  appointed  min-
ister to  Austria  in  1887  by  President  Cleveland;  John  Forsyth
served  as  minister  to  Spain  under  the  administration  of  James
Monroe,  having  been  appointed  in  1819;  Gen.  James  Longstreet
was  appointed  minister  to  Turkey  by  President  Hayes  in  1880,
and  Alfred  E.  Buck  served  as  minister  to  Japan  under  President
McKinley's  first  administration.
Emerson,  a  town  of  Bartow  county,  was  incorporated  by  act
of  the  legislature  on  Nov.  11,  1889.  The  population  in  1900  was
111.  It  is  located  on  the  Western  &  Atlantic  railroad,  about  six
miles  southeast  of  Cartersville,  has  a  money  order  postoffice,  ex-
press and  telegraph  service,  some  good  stores  and  manufacturing
establishments.  Among  the  manufactured  products  are  hydraulic
cement,  guano  filler  and  ocher.
