GEORGIA.  David Brodie Mitchell (1766-1837), ninth Governor (1809-11, 1815-17), was born in Scotland.  He was described as “a conscientious, cultured, and conservative man, of great energy, public spirit, and animated by the purest patriotism.”  George McIntosh Troup (1780-1856), the “Hercules of State Rights,” fourteenth Governor (1823-27), was of Scottish descent on both sides.  He was one of Georgia’s most illustrious Chief Magistrates.  A county in the state is named after him.  John Forsyth (1780-1841), fifteenth Governor (1827-29), was also United States Secretary of State.  George Rockingham Gilmer (1790-1859), sixteenth Governor (1829-31, 1837-39), was the grandson of a Scottish physician, Dr. George Gilmer.  He was also Member of Congress.  He also wrote a work, “Georgians,” 1855, containing much valuable matter relating to the early settlers of his state.  Charles James McDonald (1793-1860), nineteenth Governor (1839-43), and George Washington Crawford (1798-1872), twentieth Governor (1843-47), were both of Scottish descent.  James Johnson, twenty-fifth Governor (1861), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant.  He rendered great service to his state in its reconstruction after the war.  Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-83), grandson of an adherent of Prince Charles Edward, was Vice-President of the Confederacy (1861-65), chief Confederate Commissioner in the Hampton Roads Conference in February, 1865, Member of Congress from Georgia (1873-82), Governor of the state (1883), and author of “The War Between the States” (1868-70) and of a “History of the United States” (1883).  John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), thirty-fifth Governor (1886-90), was the great-grandson of one of seven brothers who emigrated from Scotland, all of whom served in the Revolutionary Army.  As Governor his administration was faultless, and the New York Sun declared his inauguration “worthy of Thomas Jefferson.”

FLORIDA.  Francis Philip Fleming (b. 1841), fourteenth Governor (1889-93), was of Scottish descent.  Alexander Walker Gilchrist, nineteenth Governor (1909), a descendant of Nimrod Gilchrist, who came from Glasgow in 1750.

ALABAMA.  Israel Pickens (1780-1827), third Governor (1821-25), Democratic Member of Congress from North Carolina (1811-17), United States Senator (1826), was of Scottish descent.  Reuben Chapman (1802-82), eleventh Governor (1847-49), was also of Scottish ancestry.  Robert Miller Patton (1809-85), seventeenth Governor (1865-68), was Ulster Scot on his father’s side and Scottish on his mother’s.  Robert Burns Lindsay, born in Dumfriesshire in 1824, a linguist and a scholar, educated at the University of St. Andrews, was nineteenth Governor (1870-72).  George Smith Houston (1811-79), twenty-first Governor, and Joseph Forney Johnston (b. 1843), twenty-seventh Governor (1896-1900), were both of Scottish descent.