Col. William Henry Stiles (1808-1865)
U.S. Congressman & Diplomat, of "Etowah Cliffs" Bartow Co., Georgia
He was born in Savannah and graduated from Yale. He served as Solicitor-General (Attorney General) for Georgia's eastern district (1833-36) and U.S. Attorney for the District of Georgia, 1836-38). He served one term (1843-45) as a Democratic Representative from Georgia to the 28th United States Congress. He was appointed U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to the Austrian Empire by President James Polk, serving from 1845 to 1849, and he later wrote a history of the revolutionary events that he witnessed.
