BERRIEN, John Macpherson, 1781-1856


Extended Bibliography

Govan, Thomas P. “John M. Berrien and the Administration of Andrew Jackson.” Journal of Southern History 5 (November 1939): 447-67.

Leach, Richard H. “John MacPherson Berrien: A Re-Evaluation.” Georgia Review 10 (Winter 1956): 468-76.

MacDonell, Alexander R. “John Macpherson Berrien.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 17 (March 1933): 1-12.

McCrary, Royce. “John Macpherson Berrien of Georgia (1781-1856): A Political Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1971.

___. “John Macpherson Berrien and the Know-Nothing Movement in Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (Spring 1977): 35-42.

McCrary, Royce, ed. “The Authorship of the Georgia Platform of 1850: A Letter by Charles J. Jenkins.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 54 (Winter 1970): 585-90.

___, ed. “A Federalist View of Georgia Politics in 1808: A Letter by John Macpherson Berrien.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (Winter 1974): 447-49.

___, ed. “Henry W. Hilliard and the Southern Caucus of 1848-49: A Letter to John Macpherson Berrien.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (Summer 1975): 151-53.

Mellichamp, Josephine. “John M. Berrien.” In Senators from Georgia, pp. 99-103. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1976.

Miller, Dorothy Burke. “John MacPherson Berrien and the Whig Party.” Master’s thesis, Emory University, 1950.

Neustadt, Margaret Lee, ed. John MacPherson Berrien Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library. Chapel Hill: Southern Historical Collections Library, University of North Carolina, 1967. Microfilm. 3 reels and guide.

Rogers, William Warren, ed. “Georgia Elects a Senator: Political Conflict in 1840.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 47 (September 1963): 332-36.

Smith, C. Jay, Jr. “John McPherson Berrien.” In Georgians in Profile: Historical Essays in Honor of Ellis Merton Coulter, edited by Horace Montgomery, pp. 168-91. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958.

Walton, Brian G. “Georgia’s Biennial Legislatures, 1840-1860, and Their Elections to the U. S. Senate.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (Summer 1977): 140-55.