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birt: DECEMBER 3, 1782
plac: Prince Edward County, Virginia
deat: SEPTEMBER 25, 1836
plac: Jacksonville, Telfair Co., GA

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marr: DECEMBER 20, 1808
plac: Tatnall Co., GA
birt: SEP 23, 1784
plac: Jones Co., NC
deat: DEC 12, 1865
plac: Madison Co., FL, buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Madison, Madison Co., FL

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John E. Coffee (December 3, 1782 – September 25, 1836) was a military leader and a United States Congressman for the state of Georgia. US House of Representatives http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000583 Early life He was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia and was a grandson of Peter Coffee, Sr. (1705-November 1771) and Susannah Mathews (1701–1796). He is sometimes confused by researchers with his first cousin John Coffee, a general in the Tennessee mili tia. John E. Coffee moved with his parents and family to a plantation near Powelton in Hancock County, Georgia, in 1780. Coffee later settled in Telfair County, Georgia in 1807, where he developed his own plantation. Military career As a general in the Georgia state militia, Coffee cut a road through the state of Georgia, which would be called "Coffee Road," to carry munitions to the Florida Territory to fight the Indians during the Creek War. It is now called the "Old Coffee Road". Political career John Coffee served as a member of the Georgia Senate from 1819 to 1827. US Congressman. Elected as a Jacksonian to represent Georgia At-Large in the Twenty-Third and two succeeding Congresses, he served from 1833 until his death. Born in Prince Ed ward County, Virginia, he moved to Georgia with his planter father at age 8 and acquired his own plantation near Jacksonville, Telfair County, in 1807. During the Creek War (1813 to 1814) he served as a General in the State Militia, and the suppl y problems he encountered along the Georgia and Florida frontiers led him to propose the construction of a road linking the two. Old Coffee Road, as it is now known, was built under the supervision of Coffee and Thomas Swain and opened in 1823 . It ran southwest from Swain's Ferry at the Ocmulgee River near Jacksonville, Georgia to Tallahassee, Florida, and as the region's first vehicular route it was of great aid to settlers. Much of the thoroughfare is still in regular use. He die d at his plantation eight days before the 1836 Congressional elections; news of his death did not reach the Jacksonian Party in time and he posthumously won a third term in the US House. William Crosby Dawson was specially elected to fill the vaca ncy. Originally buried on his property, Coffee was reinterred at McRea City Cemetery in 1921. There is also a cenotaph for him at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. Legacy and honors In addition to Old Coffee Road, Coffee County, Georgia and General Coffee State Park are named in honor of John E. Coffee.