William Henry Stiles

Lawyer, Planter, Politician

Born: 1-1-1809, Savannah, GA Died: 12-20-1865, Savannah, GA Buried: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah Married: Elizabeth Mackay Appointed charge' d' affairs to Austria in 1845, Stiles unsuccessfully, but with great diplomacy, mediated the war between Hungary and Austria, and later wrote a two-volume History of Austria, published in 1852. Stiles was elected to the House of Representatives in 1855 and to the Georgia Senate in 1858. Stilesboro, Georgia, where Stiles kept a plantation home, was named in Stiles's honor following his success in procuring a star postal route for the community.

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