Seaton Grantland (June 8, 1782 – October 18, 1864) was a

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from

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. He was born in

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. He pursued an academic course and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville () is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County, Georgia, Baldwin County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Founded in 1803 along the Oconee River, it served as the List of current and former capital cities in the ...

. Grantland was elected as a

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to the

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and reelected as a Democrat to the 25th Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1839). He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840. He was also registered in Baldwin County, Georgia as one of the largest slaveowners in 1850.http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/baldwin/census/1850/slaveowners.txt He died at his home, " Woodville", near Milledgeville in 1864. He was buried in

Memory Hill Cemetery Memory Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia. The cemetery opened in 1804. Notable interments * Thomas Petters Carnes (1762–1822), United States Representative for Georgia and state court judge. * George Pierce Do ...

in Milledgeville.

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