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Lectured Crawford (1842December 1901) was a teacher, A.M.E. Church minister, and state legislator in Georgia. He was one of the last African American legislators in Georgia prior to the prohibition on Black people holding office in the state. Crawford represented
McIntosh County, Georgia McIntosh County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,975, a drop of 23.4 percent since the 2010 census. The county seat is Darien. McIntosh County is included in the Brunswick, GA ...
. He contested an election outcome. He supported pensions for Georgia's Confederate soldiers. He was one of several African Americans to represent the county in the Georgia House during and after Reconstruction.


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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, ...
* List of African-American officeholders (1900-1959)


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1842 births 1901 deaths Members of the Georgia General Assembly African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state) African-American men in politics {{Methodist-stub