{"id":22,"date":"2024-08-25T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:27:11","slug":"chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Our Chapter<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-145 size-full\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/10\/joseph.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Joseph Habersham <br>(1751-1815)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph Habersham of Savannah, Georgia (1751-1815) was a Revolutionary War hero and political leader. He was a colonel in the Continental Army, a member of Continental Congress and the Georgia Convention that ratified the Constitution in 1788. Educated at Princeton, he returned to Georgia to help organize the &#8220;Liberty Boys&#8221; as the Revolution approached. With other Patriots, he organized the Council of Safety at Tondee&#8217;s Tavern, June 27, 1775. On January 17, 1776, leading a small group, he captured and placed under guard Sir James Wright, British Colonial Governor. With Captain Brown, he commanded the first commissioned vessel of the Revolution. He was twice Speaker of the General Assembly, in Georgia&#8217;s first legislative body. In 1785, Joseph Habersham signed the first state university charter granted in America for the University of Georgia. He served as Postmaster General under President Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. From 1802 until his death, he was president of the Georgia branch of the Bank of the United States. Habersham County, created December 15, 1818, was named for Joseph Habersham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">(Credit: historical marker transcription, 068-7, Georgia Historical Commission, 1958)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chapter Joseph Habersham of Savannah, Georgia (1751-1815) was a Revolutionary War hero and political leader. He was a colonel in the Continental Army, a member of Continental Congress and the Georgia Convention that ratified the Constitution in 1788. Educated at Princeton, he returned to Georgia to help organize the &#8220;Liberty Boys&#8221; as the Revolution &#8230; <a title=\"chapter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/chapter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about chapter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/josephhabersham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}