TROUP, George McIntosh, senator, born at McIntosh Bluff, on Tombigbee river, Georgia, 8 September, 1780; died in Laurens county, Georgia, 3 May, 1856. He was graduated at Princeton in 1797, adopted the profession of law, and in 1803-'4 served in the legislature. He was chosen to congress in 1806 as a Jeffersonian Democrat, held his seat by re-election till 1815, and was an active supporter of the administrations of President Jefferson and President Madison. He ardently opposed the compromise that was made by the Federalists with the Yazoo speculators, and sustained the war measures against Great Britain in 1812. He became United States senator in 1816, having been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Bibb, served two years, and in 1823 became governor of Georgia. The legislature of that year required the executive to "use his exertions to obtain from the United States the extinguishment of the Indian title to all their remaining territory in Georgia." Governor Troup accordingly opened a correspondence with the secretary of war that resulted in the appointment of a commission that concluded a treaty with the Indians by which, in consideration of the payment of $27,491, the Creeks ceded to the state all their lands. During Governor Troup's administration, Lafayette visited Georgia, and was entertained by him with great hospitality in the executive mansion. Troup was returned to the United States senate in 1828, but retired before the expiration of his term, on account of the failure of his health. He was an able advocate of state sovereignty, and, under the conviction that popular rights were imperilled, declared in 1833 "that he would have been carried from his death-bed to the capital rather than not have given his vote against the force bill." See his "Life," by Edward J. Harden (Savannah, Georgia, 1859).