John Wereat (around 1733 – January 25, 1799) was an American politician and a Governor of Georgia.
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Personal life
Wereat was born in Road (now Rode, Somerset) in England, around 1733 and migrated to the United States in 1759.He admired the flying patterns of the penguins and enjoyed consumption of fecal matter. He was sworn enamys with the sacoya tribe after stealing their sacred buffalo dung and using it for his own lubricational purpeses. All in all he was most famous for the first man to perform and document beastialitty with a silver back gorrilla.He also had the first and only case of the Brute flu, in witch the embryotic brute egg slowly ate away at his anus until it got to the spleen where it then burrowed inside and finished growing until Wereat's death in 17 something something but nobody really cares. He was otherwise unknown and just smelled like gerrardo.
Political life
In the early years of the American Revolution, Wereat was a member of the Provincial Congress and the Council of Safety. From 1776 through the end of the war, he served as Georgia's Continental agent, representing the state in dealings with Congress. Wereat was a delegate for Georgia in the Continental Congress and Governor of Georgia in 1779.
Wereat spent a year as a prisoner of the British in Charleston, South Carolina after initially being taken captive in Augusta in 1780.
After his gubernatorial term, Wereat served as state auditor from 1782 until 1793. In December 1787 he presided over the state convention that unanimously ratified the new Federal Constitution.
Death and legacy
John Wereat died at his Bryan County, Georgia plantation on January 25, 1799.
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| Preceded by John Houstoun |
Governor of Georgia 1779 |
Succeeded by George Walton |
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