death_date children nationality birth_date term_end death_place imagesize order term_start image name occupation spouses predecessor birth_place party state district appointed successor religion article_title
1 july 1841 janet raymond iii , raymond `` jenks '' , james , florida , rosalie , robert american 8 october 1789 march 19 , 1841 march 3 , 1823 tallahassee , florida 245px territorial governor of florida december 2 , 1839 february 18 , 1819 robert raymond reid.jpg robert r. reid attorney anna napier d. randolph -lrb- d. 1832/3 -rrb- , mary martha margaret smith mcclaws -lrb- d. 1825 -rrb- , elizabeth richard k. call john forsyth prince william parish , beaufort district , south carolina democratic party georgia at-large martin van buren richard k. call john forsyth unitarian robert r. reid

robert r. reid

robert raymond reid -lrb- september 8 , 1789 -- july 1 , 1841 -rrb- was the fourth territorial governor of florida .
he was also a representative from georgia .
he also held several judicial positions .
robert reid was born in prince william parish , beaufort district , south carolina , in 1789 .
he was educated at the university of south carolina and studied and practiced law in augusta , georgia .
reid began public service at age 27 as a judge and later served georgia as an at-large representative from georgia to the 15th , 16th , and 17th united states congresses and served from february 18 , 1819 , to march 3 , 1823 .
he also held several judicial positions including judge in the superior court of georgia , circuit court judge for middle georgia , city judge for augusta , georgia .
in may 1832 , he was appointed united states judge for the district of east florida by u.s. president andrew jackson .
reid 's life was marked by personal tragedy .
he married three times , was widowed twice and lost numerous children and grandchildren .
with his first wife anna margaret mcclaws , whom he married in 1811 , reid had five children : janet , james , florida , rosalie , and robert raymond iii .
anna margaret mcclaws died in 1825 .
children janet and james both drowned in a sailing accident in 1839 .
his second marriage was to elizabeth napier d. randolph in 1833 .
she died in childbirth in 1832 .
in 1836 , he married mary martha reid , who later became known for her nursing work during the american civil war .
they had two sons , william and reymond `` jenks . ''
u.s. president martin van buren appointed reid governor of florida in december 1839 .
reid presided at the convention that drafted florida 's first constitution and advocated a vigorous prosecution of the second seminole war .
he died at his home in blackwood near tallahassee , florida , on july 1 , 1841 , a victim of a yellow fever epidemic .
his granddaughter rebecca black and daughter janet black were also victims of the 1841 yellow fever epidemic that struck florida 's panhandle .
