Seated studio view of Forsyth. Image is clear with very good contrast. Mount is clean and in good condition. Period ink identification on back. Photographer's backmark, E. Anthony, New York from Brady negative.

John Forsyth (October 31, 1812 – May 2, 1877) was an American newspaper editor of the Mobile Register. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he attended the University of Georgia. Forsyth graduated from Princeton in 1832.

Forsyth was for many years one of the foremost Democratic Party editors of the south. He was Adjutant of the First Georgia Regiment in the Mexican War. In 1856 he was appointed Minister to Mexico to 1858. He went on to become the Mayor of Mobile, Alabama in 1860. By 1863, he served as Chief of Staff in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

In 1861, with Martin J. Crawford of Georgia, he represented the Confederate States as commissioner to the National government, but his request for an unofficial interview with William Henry Seward was declined. He left for Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War and engaged in journalistic work until health problems compelled him to retire.

He died in Mobile on May 2, 1877 and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery.

This image was from the collection of the late William A. Turner.  [jet] [ph:L]

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