George Augustine Washington

Colonel George Augustine Washington (1815 – December 4, 1892) was an American tobacco planter, slaveholder, company director and politician.

He was "one of the world's largest tobacco growers" by 1860, and served in the Tennessee General Assembly in the 1870s.

Washington built Wessyngton, a tobacco plantation in Cedar Hill, Tennessee.

[1] In addition to producing tobacco as a commodity crop, the plantation also raised pigs and sold ham and related pork products.

[4] His son Joseph E. Washington continued to manage the plantation, and served as a United States Congressman from Tennessee from 1887 to 1897.