Later Life
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.
Telfair died in Savannah in 1807, and was buried in Bonaventure Cemetery there.
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