Nicholas Ware

{{Short description|American politician (1769–1824)}} {{redirect|Senator Ware}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Nicholas Ware |image = Nicholas Ware.jpg |jr/sr1 = United States Senator |state1 = [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |term_start1 = November 10, 1821 |term_end1 = September 7, 1824 |predecessor1 = [[Freeman Walker]] |successor1 = [[Thomas W. Cobb]] |office2 = Member of the [[Georgia House of Representatives]] |term2 = 1808-1811<br>1814-1815 |birth_date = {{birth date|1776|2|16}} |birth_place = [[Caroline County, Virginia]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1824|9|7|1776|2|16}} |death_place = [[New York City]], U.S. |party = [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] |spouse = Susan Brooks Savage |children = Robert Alexander Ware<br>Susan Margaret Ware |relatives = [[Francis W. Eppes]] (son-in-law) }}

'''Nicholas Ware''' (February 16, 1776{{spaced ndash}}September 7, 1824) was a [[United States senator]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

Ware was born in [[Caroline County, Virginia]] and later moved with his parents to [[Edgefield, South Carolina]] and a few years later to [[Augusta, Georgia]]. He received a thorough English education and studied medicine. He studied law in Augusta as well as at the [[Litchfield Law School]] in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]]. He was admitted to the [[bar (law)|bar]] and commenced practice in Augusta.

From 1808 to 1811 and in 1814–1815, Ware was a member of the [[Georgia House of Representatives]]. He was elected as [[List of mayors of Augusta, Georgia|mayor of Augusta]], serving from 1819 to 1821. That year the Georgia legislature elected him as a [[Democratic-Republican]] (later as a Crawford Republican) to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Freeman Walker]]; he served from November 10, 1821, until his death in [[New York City]] in 1824. Ware was interred under the annex of [[Grace Church (Manhattan)|Grace Church]].

He was a planter and slave owner. At the time of the 1820 census, he owned 62 slaves<ref>{{cite census | url = | title = 1820 United States Census| year = 1820| location = Richmond County, GA| roll = | page = | line = | enumdist = | filmnum = | nafilm = M33| accessdate = March 6, 2016}}</ref> and had extensive plantation near Augusta. He developed it for cotton, the major commodity crop of the Deep South in the antebellum era.

He married Susan Brooks Savage, with whom he had two children, Robert Alexander Ware (May 10, 1807 – July 19, 1893) and Susan Margaret Ware (February 14, 1815 – September 1, 1887). His daughter, Susan, first married a man named Crouch; after being widowed, she married [[Francis W. Eppes]] of [[Tallahassee, Florida]].

==See also== * [[Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art]] ("Ware's Folly"), Ware's former home * [[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)]]

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==External links== {{CongBio|W000148}}

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