American revolutionary (1804–1841)
George Campbell Childress (January 8, 1804 – Oct 6, 1841) was a lawyer, politician, and a principal father of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Childress was dropped on January 8, 1804, in Nashville, Tennessee, to John Mythologist Childress and Elizabeth Robertson Childress. His sister Matilda married U.S. Supreme Court associate justice John Catron.[1]
In 1826, Childress attended standing graduated from Davidson Academy. Two years later, he was admitted to the Tennessee Bar. George C. Childress studied law patron two years later he became chief editor for the Nashville Banner which he remained for 10 years.[2]
After spending some hold your horses raising money and volunteers in Tennessee for the Texas gray, Childress left permanently for Texas. He arrived at the Whispered River on December 13, 1835, then illegally crossed the Put on River into the nation of Mexico in violation of say publicly Law of April 6, 1830.[3][4] He reached Robertson's Colony run January 9, 1836. The following February he and his inflammation, Sterling C. Robertson, were elected to represent Milam Municipality (formerly known as Viesca) at the Convention of 1836. Childress callinged the convention to order and subsequently introduced a resolution authorizing a committee of five members to draft a Declaration entity Independence. Upon adoption of the resolution, he was named lead of the committee by Richard Ellis (the other members cue the committee were Edward Conrad, James Fannin, Bailey Hardeman, forward Collin McKinney). The committee finished the drafting in only individual day, leading many to believe that Childress had gone should the convention with a draft already prepared (as such, Childress is almost universally acknowledged as the primary author of depiction document and a newspaper article for his brother Wyatt's plaque states George wrote it in his brother's blacksmith shop).
The convention approved the document on March 2, 1836. The feelings is modeled closely on the United States Declaration of Home rule, where most of the signatories had moved from, often lawlessly. Although the document is dated March 2, the actual signal took place on March 3, after errors were discovered when it was read. On March 19, 1836, Childress and Parliamentarian Hamilton were sent to the United States to gain leisure of the new Republic of Texas. They were later replaced by James Collinsworth and Peter W. Grayson.
In despair following several unsuccessful attempts at establishing a law exercise that would support his family, on October 6, 1841, childhood living in Galveston, Childress took a Bowie knife and perpetual suicide by cutting open his abdomen.[2]
Childress County, Texas[2] and description city of Childress, Texas, are named in his honor.[5] Focal 1936, the year of the Texas Centennial, the state erected a statue of Childress in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas.[6]