the Yazoo land scandal. Telfair was one of only 12 men who received electoral votes during the first election for President and Vice President of the United States, receiving the vote of one unrecorded elector from his home state of Georgia. Death and legacy Telfair died in Savannah in 1807, interred initially in the family vault at Sharon Plantation. Later in the 19th century, his remains were moved to Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Three months after Telfair died, Georgia named Telfair County after the former governor. Later in the 19th century, Savannah's St. James Square was renamed Telfair Square to honor the family. One of Telfair's sons, Thomas Telfair, represented Georgia in the U.S. Congress. The eldest of the Telfair daughters, Mary Telfair, outlived her siblings and became the benefactor of the first public art museum in the American South, now a complex of three buildings called the Telfair Museums. After her death in 1875, her will also provided for the founding of the Telfair Hospital for Females. Today it is known as Mary Telfair Women's Hospital. See also List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States References External links Edward Telfair in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Ga. Governor Edward Telfair at National Governors Association site 1735 births 1807 deaths British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies American Protestants Continental Congressmen from Georgia (U.S. state) 18th-century American politicians Signers of the Articles of Confederation Governors of Georgia (U.S. state) Burials in Georgia (U.S. state) Candidates in the 1788–1789 United States presidential election Georgia (U.S. state) Democratic-Republicans Independent state governors of the United States Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States Georgia (U.S. state) Independents American slave owners American slave traders Politicians from Savannah, Georgia Founding Fathers of the United States