This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Da.2ADI/810.1 Message Board Post: Berrien County was named for John McPherson Berrien. I found the following information on him somewhere on the web but I forgot to write down the site. Senate Years of Service: 1825-1829; 1841-1845; 1845-1852 Party: Jacksonian; Whig; Whig Senator from Georgia Born at Rocky Hill, near Princeton, N.J., August 23, 1781; moved with his parents to Savannah, Ga., in 1782 Was graduated from Princeton College in 1796; studied law in Savannah; was admitted to the bar and began practice in Louisville, then the capital of Georgia, in 1799; returned to Savannah Elected solicitor of the eastern judicial circuit of Georgia in 1809; judge of the same circuit from 1810 until January 30, 1821, when he resigned Captain of the Georgia Hussars, a Savannah volunteer company, in the War of 1812 Member, State senate 1822-1823 Elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1825, until March 9, 1829 Resigned to accept the position of Attorney General in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson and served from March 9, 1829, until June 22, 1831, when he resigned Resumed the practice of law Again elected, as a Whig, to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1841, until May 1845, when he again resigned to accept an appointment to the supreme court of Georgia Again elected in 1845 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by his second resignation Reelected in 1846 and served from November 13, 1845, until May 28, 1852, when he resigned for the third time Chairman, Committee on Judiciary (Twentieth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses) President of the American Party convention at Milledgeville in 1855 Died in Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1856; interment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Bibliography DAB; Govan, Thomas P. ‘John Macpherson Berrien and the Administration of Andrew Jackson.’ Journal of Southern History 5 (November 1939): 447-67; McCrary, Royce, Jr. ‘John Macpherson Berrien of Georgia: A Political Biography.’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1971.