Joseph Ottolenghe

Joseph Solomon Ottolenghe, born Giuseppe Salomone Ottolenghi, was an Italian-born British colonial politician, Anglican catechist, agricultural administrator, and slaveholder who became a prominent figure in eighteenth-century Georgia. Born into a Jewish family in Casale Monferrato, he converted to Anglicanism while living in England before emigrating to Georgia in 1751. Elected to the Georgia Commons House of Assembly in 1755, he was among the earliest known people of Jewish birth to hold elected legislative office in colonial America, preceding the election of Francis Salvador in 1774. Ottol

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