Excerpt from Convention Sketches: Brief Biographies of the Members of the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1877 Among the most distinguished delegates to the Constitutional Convention is Gen. Alexander R. Lawton, of Savannah, a member of the well-known law firm Of Jackson, Lawton 8: Bassinger. General Lawton's birthplace is near Robertville, in Beaufort dis triet. He was born about the year 1819, in the house in which his father first saw the light - a house that has been standing for one hundred years. He graduated at the military academy, at West Point, with distinguished honors, and served two years in the United States army. At the expiration of this time he resigned and entered the law school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated after a thorough law course. Shortly thereafter he formed a law partnership with Gen. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, and the firm now has the largest and most lucrative practice of any in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.