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Myrick Davies

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Myrick Davies
Governor of Georgia
In office
August 1780 – August 16, 1781
Preceded byStephen Heard
Succeeded byNathan Brownson
Personal details
Born
Myrick Davies
Died1781

Myrick Davies ( ? – 1781) was an American politician. He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1780 to 1781 after Stephen Heard moved to North Carolina. Following his death in 1781, Nathan Brownson became governor. Davies was killed by Loyalists.

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  • Article from the Probert Encyclopedia
  • Northern, William J. and John Temple Graves. Men of mark in Georgia: a complete and elaborate history of the state from its settlement to the present time, chiefly told in biographies and autobiographies of the most eminent men of each period of Georgia's progress and development. (A. B. Caldwell, 1906) p. 53.
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Georgia
1780–1781
Succeeded by