1813 or 1814 silhouette |President of the University of Georgia|
|Term||1801 – 1810| August 21, 1757| |Died||September 4, 1822
|Alma mater||Yale University| Josiah Meigs (August 21, 1757 –
September 4, 1822) was an American academic, journalist and
government official. Meigs was the 13th and last child of
Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs. His older brother was
Return J. Meigs, Sr., whose son (Josiah's nephew) was Return J.
Meigs, Jr., who served as a United States Senator and Governor
of Ohio. After graduating from Yale University in 1778 with a
Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree, Meigs studied law and was (from
1781 to 1784) a Yale tutor in mathematics, natural philosophy
and astronomy. Yale class of 1778 included Daniel Webster, Joel
Barlow, Oliver Wolcott, Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah Swift, Ashur
Miller, and Noah Smith. He was admitted to the bar in New Haven,
Connecticut, in 1783, and served as New Haven city clerk from
1784 to 1789. During this period he established and published
The New Haven Gazette (la