John Wereat

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John Wereat served briefly as de facto governor of Georgia in 1779 and is best known for his attempt in 1795 to thwart the Yazoo land fraud, a corrupt deal between the state legislature and land speculators.

Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society, John Wereat letter to John Gibbons, #GHS 0854-AF-006.

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