First Colored Senator and Representatives

More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the

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(1865–1877) after passage of the

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in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before

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, disenfranchisement, and the

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fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown, Jr. noted that in some states, such as

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, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. The following is a partial list some of the most notable of the officeholders pre–1900.

U.S. Senate

Hiram Rhodes Revels Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827Different sources list his birth year as either 1827 or 1822. – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Chur ...

( R), Senator from Mississippi (1870-1871) *

Blanche Bruce Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was ...

(R), Senator from Mississippi (1875-1881) *

P. B. S. Pinchback Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer. Pinchback was the second African American (after Oscar Dunn) to serve as governor and lieutenant governor of a U ...

was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Louisiana legislature in 1873, but the Senate refused to seat him.

U.S. House

Alabama

State Senate

Alexander H. Curtis Alexander H. Curtis (1829 - July 20, 1878) was a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives and the Alabama Senate during the Reconstruction era. Early life Curtis was born 1829, a slave, in Raleigh, North Carolina on E. Haywoo ...

- Perry County 1872-1874 * James K. Greene - Hale County *

Jeremiah Haralson Jeremiah Haralson (April 1, 1846 – 1916?), was a politician from Alabama who served as a state legislator and was among the first ten African-American United States Congressmen. Born into slavery in Columbus, Georgia, Haralson became self-educ ...

- Dallas County * John W. Jones - Lowndes County *

Lloyd Leftwich Lloyd Leftwich was a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was a state senator from 1872 to 1876. He was photographed with other members of the state senate in 1872. Leftwich bought a 122-acre farm from his former owne ...

- Greene County * Benjamin F. Royal Bullock County (1868-1876) * D. J. Daniels

1868 Legislature

From 1868 to 1878 more than 100 African Americans served in the Alabama Legislature.

House

Benjamin F. Alexander Benjamin F. Alexander was a delegate to Alabama's 1867 Constitutional Convention and a state representative for Greene County, Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He lived in Eutaw. See also *List of African-American officeholders during R ...

representing Greene County * James H. Alston representing Macon County *Matt Avery representing Perry County *

Samuel Blandon Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

- Lee *

Nathan A. Brewington Nathan A. Brewington was a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He represented Lowndes County, Alabama, Lowndes County from 1868 until 1870. He was prosperous. References

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- Lowndes *Richard Burke - Sumter *

John Carraway John Carraway (1834 - 1871) was a tailor, seaman, civil rights activist, and politician in the United States. In Alabama during the Reconstruction era, he served as a delegate to the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention. He also served on Mobi ...

- Mobile *George Cox - Montgomery *

- representing Perry County 1870-1872 *

Thomas Diggs Thomas H. Digges (died June 6, 1887) was a state representative during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. He represented Barbour County, Alabama, Barbour County. He worked as a field hand. See also *List of African-American officeholders during ...

- Barbour *

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- Dallas *

Ovide Gregory Ovide Gregory, sometimes written as Ovid Gregory, (d. September 2, 1869) was a politician in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. A Creole, he was multilingual and freeborn. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives. There was open hos ...

- Mobile * James K. Greene - Hale *D. H. Hill - Bullock *George Houston - Sumter *

Benjamin Inge Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

- Sumter *

Columbus Jones Columbus Jones (died 1869) was an American politician who was a delegate at Alabama's 1867 Constitutional Convention and served as state legislator representing Madison County, Alabama. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives and died wh ...

- Madison * Edward R. Rose - Marengo * Shandy W. Jones - Tuscaloosa * Horace King - Russell *Thomas Lee - Perry * Greene S. W. Lewis - Perry *

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- Madison *A. G. Richardson - Wilcox * Lawrence S. Speed - Bullock *W. L. Taylor - Chambers * Holland Thompson - Montgomery *

William V. Turner William V. Turner was a state representative in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He testified about intimidation and balloting issues in 1871. He represented Elmore County. He campaigned for U.S. Senator George E. Spencer and was accused of ...

- Elmore *

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- Dallas *

L. J. Williams Lazarus "Laddie" J. Williams, sometimes spelled "Latty", (1844 – June 1874) was a registrar in 1866 and served in the Alabama House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. He was also a Montgomery city council member for th ...

- Montgomery *Henry Young - Lowndes

1870 legislature

House

* George W. Braxdell - Talladega *Thomas Clark - Barbour * Henry A. Cochran - Dallas * Henry H. Craig - Montgomery *

- Perry *

Thomas H. Diggs Thomas H. Digges (died June 6, 1887) was a state representative during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. He represented Barbour County. He worked as a field hand. See also *List of African-American officeholders during Reconstruction More t ...

- Barbour *

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- Perry * William D. Gaskin - Lowndes * Edward Gee - Dallas * James K. Greene - Hale *

Jere Haralson Jeremiah Haralson (April 1, 1846 – 1916?), was a politician from Alabama who served as a state legislator and was among the first ten African-American United States Congressmen. Born into slavery in Columbus, Georgia, Haralson became self-educ ...

- Dallas * Horace King - Russell *R. L. Johnson - Dallas * Henry St. Clair - Macon *

Lawrence Speed Lawrence S. Speed was a farmer and state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was one of five African Americans who represented Bullock County in those years. He was also a Union League organizer in Bullock County. Speed was e ...

- Bullock *Holland Thompson - Montgomery *

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- Lowndes * Levie Wells - Marengo *L. J. Williams - Montgomery

1872 Legislature

Senate

* D. J. Daniels *

Benjamin Royal Benjamin F. Royal was a state senator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the state senate in 1868, and was the first African American to serve in the chamber. He represented Bullock County and served for nine years. He ...

House

*William E. Carson - Lowndes *Thomas J. Clarke - Barbour *Henry A. Cochran - Dallas *

Mentor Dotson Mentor Dotson (–?), was an American politician, teacher, minister, and storekeeper. He was a state legislator and represented Sumter County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1872–1874. He also went by the names Minter Dotso ...

- Sumter *

- Perry *

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- Montgomery *

Samuel Fantroy Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...

- Barbour *

Joseph H. Goldsby Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

- Dallas * James K. Greene - Hale *R. L. Johnson - Dallas *

Reuben Jones Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer ...

- Madison * Greene S. W. Lewis - Perry * Perry Matthews - Bullock *

January Maull January Maull, also known as Jany and whose surname is sometimes spelled Maul, was a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1873. He represented Lowndes County. The ''Montg ...

- Lowndes *

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- Wilcox *G. R. Millen - Russell *George Patterson - Macon *Samuel J. Patterson - Autauga *Robert Reed - Sumter * Bristo W. Reese - Hale * Lawrence S. Speed - Bullock * Henry St. Clair - Macon *

Lawson Steele Lawson Steele was a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He represented Montgomery County, Alabama. He was a leader in the A.M.E. Church. In 1870, he had substantial and was one of the wealthier African American legislators. ...

- Montgomery *William Taylor - Sumter *B. R. Thomas - Marengo *

Frank H. Threatt Frank H. Threatt (died October 8, 1931) was a Methodist minister, politician, and public office holder in Alabama. He served in the Alabama legislature from 1872 to 1874 representing Marengo County and was a congressional candidate from the First ...

- Marengo *J. R. Treadwell - Russell *Thomas H. Walker - Dallas *A. E. Williams - Barbour *L. J. Williams - Montgomery

1874 Legislature

House

*G. W. Allen - Bullock * Elijah Baldwin - Wilcox * Granville Bennett - Sumter * William H. Blevins - Dallas * James Bliss - Sumter *Matthew Boyd - Perry * Hershel V. Cashin - Montgomery *Elijah Cook - Montgomery *D. J. Daniels - Russell *Charles Fagan - Montgomery *

Adam Gachet Adam Gachet, sometimes written Adam Gashet, was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Alabama. He represented Barbour County, Alabama. He was enslaved until 1865. He is commemorated on a historical marker listing state legislators in Alabama w ...

- Barbour *

Prince Gardner Prince Gardner was a state legislator in Alabama. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874 until he was unseated. In 1872 he was documented as a teacher in Barbour County. He was a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E. ...

- Russell *William Gaskin - Lowndes *Charles E. Harris - Dallas *A. W. Johnson - Macon *Samuel Lee - Lowndes * Greene S. W. Lewis - Perry *Edwin C. Locke - Wilcox *Jacob Martin - Dallas * Perry Matthews - Bullock *

- Wilcox *

Edward Odum Edward Odom (born 1853) an American politician and barber. He was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1872. His 1874 election as a legislator from Barbour County, and that of fellow state representatives Adam Gachet and A. E ...

- Barbour *George Patterson - Macon * Bristo W. Reese - Hale *Robert Reid - Sumter *Charles Smith - Bullock *A. E. Williams - Barbour *J. R. Witherspoon - Perry * Manly Wynne - Hale

1876 Legislature

House

* Elijah Baldwin - Wilcox * William H. Blevins - Dallas * Hugh A. Carson - Lowndes * Hershel V. Cashin - Montgomery * Charles O. Harris - Montgomery *

Green T. Johnston Green T. Johnston was a state legislator who represented Dallas County, Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 from Dallas County. Dallas County was part of Alabama's "Black Belt" cou ...

- Dallas *Captain Gilmer - Montgomery * Greene S. W. Lewis - Perry *

Nimrod Snoddy Nimrod Snoddy (July 4, 1821 - May 16, 1886) was an A. M. E. preacher who served in the Alabama Legislature during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 representing Greene County, Alabama. He held s ...

- Greene * William J. Stevens - Dallas

1878 Legislature

House

* Hugh A. Carson representing Lowndes County * George English representing Wilcox County

Other

William Hooper Councill William Hooper Councill (July 12, 1848 – 1909) was a former slavery, slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama.D. W. Culp, ed., ''Twentieth Century ...

, clerk in the Alabama legislature in 1872 and 1874

Arkansas

Between 1868 and 1893, 85 men noted as either "

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" or "

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" served in the state legislature (House and Senate) of Arkansas. They served under the 1868 Arkansas Constitution that granted them the right to vote and hold office and then the 1874 Constitution, instituted after Democrats retook control of state government. After 1893, the next African-American to serve as a state legislator in Arkansas was in 1973.

Statewide officeholders

Joseph Carter Corbin Joseph Carter Corbin (March 26, 1833 – January 9, 1911) was a journalist and educator in the United States. Before the abolition of slavery, he was a journalist, teacher, and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Kentucky. After th ...

, chief clerk of the Little Rock Post Office (1872), state superintendent of public schools (1873-1875)

1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention

William Henry Grey William Henry Grey (December 22, 1829, in Washington, D.C. – November 8, 1888, in Helena, Arkansas) was a state legislator, storeowner and church leader in Arkansas. He served in various elected and public offices in the state during the Reco ...

, Arkansas Constitutional Convention (1868) * James T. White, Arkansas Constitutional Convention (1868), commissioner of public works and internal improvements (1872)

Arkansas Senate

James W. Mason James Worthington Mason (c. 1841 – November 1874) was a state senator, sheriff, and postmaster in Arkansas. In 1868 he was one of the first six African Americans to serve in the Arkansas House. He also served in the Arkansas Senate and was the f ...

(1871) * James T. White (1871) * Ruben B. White (1873) *

Samuel H. Holland Samuel H. Holland was a state senator in Arkansas in 1873 and, for a special session, in 1874 during the Reconstruction era. He also served as a teacher, sheriff, jailer, and principal. He taught at the Howard School, named for Oliver O. Howard, u ...

(1873, 1874) *

Richard A. Dawson Richard A. Dawson (1848 - 1906) was a lawyer and state legislator in Arkansas. He was born in Virginia and his father was a minister. Dawson studied at Oberlin College, and received his law degree from the Old University of Chicago. Dawson practic ...

(1873, 1874) *

(1875) *

Anthony Stanford Anthony L. Stanford (1830–1883) was a state senator in Arkansas from 1877 until 1880. He was born in New Jersey. He was a Republican in 1877 and a Greenback Party, Greenback in 1879. He was an ordained member of the African Methodist Episcopal ( ...

(1877-1880) *

W. H. Logan W. H. Logan was a farmer, preacher, teacher and politician in the Arkansas Delta. He served in the Arkansas Senate from 1887 to 1891. He was born in Ohio in the first half of the 1850s. During his career he served as a justice of the peace, preac ...

, (1887, 1889) * George Waltham Bell (1891)

Arkansas House

* Anderson Louis Rush (1868-1869) * Richard R. Samuels (1868-1869) *

(1868-1870) * James T. White (1868-1870) * James M. Alexander, Arkansas House (1871), first African-American

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as well as postmaster, school trustee, and grand jury member. *

Edward A. Fulton Edward Allen Fulton (1833 - 1906) was an American newspaperman, abolitionist, postmaster, farmer, and politician. He represented Drew County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1871. After being enslaved in Missouri, he became an ...

(1871) * James A. Robinson, (1871, 1874–75) * John W. Webb (1871) * John C. Rollins (1873) *

John H. Johnson John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was an American businessman and publisher. Johnson was the founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson's company, with its ''Ebony' ...

(1873) * Abraham H. Miller (1874-1875) *

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(1877) *

Anderson Ebberson Anderson Ebberson (1843–1916) was an American politician. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1877 and 1881, representing Jefferson County, Arkansas, as a Republican. In the 1876 elections he was one of eight blacks to win ...

(1877) for Jefferson County *

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1874–1875 and (1877) for

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* James Wofford (1877) for

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* T. H. Sawyer (1877) for Lincoln County *

Crockett Brown Crockett Brown was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing Lee County, Arkansas in 1877. He served from the county with Patrick T. Price. He was noted as a politician in an interview of a fo ...

(1877) for Lee County * Jacob N. Donohoo (1877, 1887, 1889, 1891) for

* Patrick T. Price (1877) for

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* William Hines Furbush (1878) *

(1881) * William E. Gray (1881) Pulaski County 1881 * William C. Payne (1881) * Carl R. Polk (1881) * Isaac George Bailey (1885) * Joseph H. Bradford (1885) * Joseph B. Brooks (1885) * Green Hill Jones (1885 and 1889) * George W. Bell, Arkansas House (1891 and 1893) * Hugh C. Newsome (1887) * John H. Carr (1889, 1891, 1893) * Sebron Williams Dawson (1889, 1891) *

Henry A. Johnson Henry Augustus Johnson was a justice of the peace, sheriff, and state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Chicot County in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1891. He was included in a photo montage and series of profiles of African Ameri ...

(1891) * R. C. Weddington (1891) * Benjamin F. Adair (1891) * John Gray Lucas (1891) * George W. Lowe (1891) * S. L. Woolfolk (1891) * G. W. Watson (1891) * Henry N. Williams (1891) *

(1891) * Peter H. Booth (1893) *

Nathan E. Edwards Nathan E. Edwards (1855 - 1908) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Chicot County as a Republican for the 1893 session. He was one of at least four African Americans in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1893 along with Geo ...

(1893)

Local offices

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, judge, younger brother of

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II (September 28, 1821 – August 14, 1874) was an American Presbyterian minister who served as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, and along with Josiah Thomas Walls, U.S. Congres ...

Colorado

House

John T. Gunnell John T. Gunnell (1836 – June 26, 1902) served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 during the Third General Assembly. He has the distinction of being the first African American to serve in the Colorado Legislature. He chai ...

(1881) * Joseph H. Stuart (1895)

Local offices

* Henry O. Wagoner, clerk in the first Colorado State Legislature in 1876

Florida

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and

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Florida State Senate

''Senators in italics and marked * served pre 1900 but not in the 1865–1877 main reconstruction period'' * ''

Henry Wilkins Chandler Henry Wilkins Chandler (September 22, 1852 – 1938) was an American lawyer, newspaperman, politician, and federal official. Born a freeman, he was the first African American graduate from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He served two terms in t ...

*'' (1852-1938) – Served 1881-1887 *

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(b. 1840/1) – Served 1869-1870 (also representative) * Frederick Hill (b.1834/5) – Served 1871-1872 (also representative) *

Thomas Warren Long Thomas Warren Long (January 10, 1839 – October 25, 1917) was an African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal minister and politician in Florida. He fought against the Confederacy during the American Civil War and later served i ...

(1839-1917) – Served 1873-1879 * ''

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*'' – Served 1885-1887 * Robert Meacham (1835–1902) – Served 1868-1879 * Alfred Brown Osgood (b. 1843) – Served 1875-1876 (also representative) * Charles H. Pearce (1817–1887) – Served 1870-1884 *

Washington Pope Washington Pope (born 1826) was an American farmer, county commissioner and state legislator who served in the Florida State Senate from 1873 until 1876. Biography Pope was born in 1826 in Florida and worked as a farmer. He served as the Ja ...

- Served 1873-1876 *

Samuel Spearing Samuel Spearing (born 1823/3) served in the Florida Senate during the Reconstruction era. He represented Duval County in the state senate in 1874. According to one source he was known as Uncle Sam. He also served as a collector of revenue. Spe ...

(born 1823/3) – Served 1874 * John Wallace (1842-1980) – Served 1874-1879 (also representative) * Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) – Served 1869-1871 and 1877-1881 (also

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and state representative)

Florida House of Representatives

''Representative in italics and marked * served pre 1900 but not in the 1865–1877 main reconstruction period'' * Josiah Haynes Armstrong (1842-1898) – represented Columbia County 1871–1872 and 1875–1875 * '' Edward I. Alexander*'' (1850-1911) – represented Madison County 1877, 1879, 1885 * '' Samuel Anderson*'' – represented Duval County 1887 * Richard Horatio Black (1839-1911) – represented

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1869 and 1870 (Also soldier, teacher, Volusia County registrar, Alachua County justice of the peace, custom house position in Philadelphia) * William Bradwell (1822-1887) – represented Duval County 1868-1870 * '' Richard Lewis Brown Sr.*'' (1854-1948) – represented

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1881 and 1883 * ''

Wallace B. Carr Wallace B. Carr (June 22, 1853-1931) was an American state legislator in Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1881 and 1887. He represented Leon County. He served in the Committee in Agriculture. He was born in Leon Count ...

*'' – represented Leon County 1881 and 1887 * '' Phillip Carroll*'' (b. 1847) – represented Leon County 1881 * '' Joseph Newman Clinton*'' (1854–1927) – represented

1881–1883 * '' George C. Coleman*'' (1851-1926) – represented Nassau County in the House in 1881 * Oliver J. Coleman (1844-1926) – represented Madison County 1871-1872 and 1874-1875. Also served in the Florida Senate in 1874, as a county commissioner, and Madison councilmanFlorida's Black Public Officials 1867 - 1924 by Canter Brown Jr., University of Alabama Press, 1998 *

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– represented Marion County 1873-1874 *

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(b. 1827/8) – represented Leon County 1868-1870 *

(b. 1840/1) – represented

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1871-1874 (also senator) * Robert H. Dennis (1846-1900) – represented Jackson County 1875 *

Zebulon Elijah Zebulon Elijah (1836 or 1838 - 1910) became a state legislator and government official in Florida after having been enslaved. He was born in Santa Rosa County, Florida. Elijah served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1871 to 1873 repre ...

(1836/8-1910) – represented Escambia County 1871–1873 *

Auburn Erwin Auburn H. Erwin (born November 1834) was an American teacher, A.M.E. minister, justice of the peace, constable, and state legislator in Florida. He was a delegate to the 1868 Florida Constitutional Convention and represented Columbia County, Flori ...

– served 1868-1870 * ''

Samuel W. Frazier Samuel W. Frazier (born 1851, Georgia) was a farmer, justice of the peace and state legislator in Florida. He was elected to several terms in the Florida House of Representatives from Leon County, Florida, Leon County. He was the justice of the p ...

*'' (b. 1851) – represented Leon County 1879 and 1885-1887 *

Lucien Fisher Lucien Fisher, sometimes spelled Lucian Fisher, was a state legislator in Florida. He represented Leon County in the Florida House of Representatives. He served in 1875. Lucian Fisher co-signed a letter to the Freedmen's Bureau from black grocer ...

– represented Leon County 1875 *

Emanuel Fortune Emanuel Fortune (3 January 1833 – 27 January 1897) was an American shoemaker, farmer, and political leader who represented Jackson County, Florida at the 1868 Florida Constitutional Convention and in the Florida House of Representatives befor ...

(b. 1832) - represented Jackson County 1868-1870 *

Theodore Gass Theodore C. Gass was a politician in Florida. He served as a county commissioner in Alachua County, Florida, Alachua County and in the Florida House of Representatives from 1871 to 1875. He also served as a councilman in Gainesville from 187 until ...

– represented

Alachua County, Florida Alachua County ( ) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida since 1906, when the campus ope ...

1871-1875 * ''

Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs (September 16, 1855 – October 31, 1898) was a member of the 1885 Florida Constitutional Convention, served in the Florida House of Representatives, and was a school administrator. He was nominated to West Point by R ...

*'' (1855–1898) – represented Duval County 1884 – son of

Birch Gibson Birch Gibson (c. 1828 - September 10, 1895) was a state legislator and local official in Ocala, Florida. He was one of several African Americans to represent Marion County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives during the Reconstruction ...

(1828-1895) – represented Marion County 1872 *

Noah Graham Noah Graham (1815 - May 1885) was an A.M.E. minister and state legislator in Florida. The Florida Archives have a copy of his 1867 voter registration. He is identified as "Colored". He represented Leon County, Florida in the Florida House of Repre ...

– represented Leon County 1868-1872 *

Henry Harmon Henry S. Harmon (c. 1839 – December 24, 1889) was an attorney and politician in Florida after the Civil War. He was the first African-American to be admitted to the bar in Florida. Early life Henry Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvani ...

(1839–1889) – represented

1868-1870 * Frederick Hill (b.1834/5) – represented

1868-1870 (also senator) *

Scipio Jasper T. Scipio Jasper (born c. 1815) was an American state legislator in Florida. He was one of several African American members of the Florida House of Representatives who served in the body for Marion County, Florida and lived in Ocala, Florida durin ...

(b. 1815) – represented Marion County 1872-1873 * '' Andrew Jackson Junius*'' – represented Jefferson County 1879 * Joseph H. Lee (b. 1848) – represented Duval County 1875-1876 and 6 other years later (also senator at some-point) * '' George A. Lewis*'' – represented Jacksonville County 1889 * Robert Livingston (d. 1869) – represented Leon County 1868-1869 *

Ephraim Logan Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daughte ...

(b.1829/30) – represented Jefferson County 1871-1872 *

Daniel McInnis Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...

(b. 1841/2) – represented Duval County 1871-1874 *

John Willis Menard John Willis Menard (April 3, 1838 – October 8, 1893) was a federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician born in Kaskaskia, Illinois to parents who were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans. After moving to New Orleans, on ...

(1838-1893) – represented

1874 * Anthony Mills (b.1827/8) – represented Jefferson County 1868-1870 * Alfred Brown Osgood (b. 1843) – represented Madison County 1868-1874 (also senator) * John E. Proctor – represented Leon County 1873 to 1875 and 1879 to 1881 *

Jesse Robinson Jesse may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jesse (biblical figure), father of David in the Bible. * Jesse (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Jesse (surname), a list of people Music * ''Jesse'' (a ...

(b.1837/8) – represented Jackson County 1870s * W. K. Robinson – represented Jackson County 1868-1870 *

John R. Scott Sr. Reverend John Robert Scott Sr. (1840-41 – February 18, 1929) was a religious and political leader in Florida as well as a college president. He was born into slavery in Virginia. During the Reconstruction era he became a pastor in the African ...

((1840/1–1929)) – represented Duval County 1868-1873 * '' John R. Scott Jr.*'' – represented Duval County 1889-1891 * John Simpson (b.1836/7) – represented Marion County 1868-1870 *

Samuel Small Samuel Small (1826 or 1827 – October 30, 1883) was a Baptist minister and state legislator who lived in Ocala, Florida. He was one of several African Americans who served in the Florida House of Representatives representing Marion County, Flori ...

(1826/7–1883) – represented Marion County 1874-1875 * William G. Stewart – represented Leon County 1873-1874 *

Benjamin Thompson Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (german: Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolu ...

– represented Columbia County 1868-1870 * Charles Thompson (b. 1838/9) – represented Columbia County 1874-1875 *

Thomas Urquhart Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660) was a Scottish aristocrat, writer, and translator. He is best known for his translation of the works of French Renaissance writer François Rabelais to English. Biography Urquhart was born to Thomas Urquhart ...

– represented Hamilton County and

Suwannee County Suwannee County is a county located in the north central portion of the state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,474, up from 41,551 in 2010. Its county seat is Live Oak. Suwannee County was a dry county until August 201 ...

1668 * John Wallace (1842-1980) – represented Leon County 1870-1874 (also senator) * Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) – represented

1868-1869 (also

and state senator) *

George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...

– represented

1874-1875 * Richard Wells (b.1830/1) – represented Leon County 1868-1872 * George Washington Witherspoon (1845-1892) – represented Jefferson County 1875-1876 * John W. Wyatt (b. 1831/2) – represented Leon County 1870-1874

Florida Local offices

James Page (minister) James Page (1808 – March 14, 1883), was an African-American minister and political leader. History James Page was born enslaved in Richmond, Virginia in 1808. About 1838 John Parkhill transported James and his wife to Leon County, Florida. C ...

, Leon County commissioner

Georgia

Georgia State Senate

Aaron Alpeoria Bradley Aaron Alpeoria Bradley (–1881) was born into slavery, escaped, and became a lawyer in Massachusetts. After the American Civil War he moved to Georgia. He was denied admittance to the Georgia Bar, but became a political activist and worked as a l ...

, state senator from Chatham County *

Tunis Campbell Rev. Tunis Gulic Campbell Sr. (April 1, 1812 – December 4, 1891), called "the oldest and best known clergyman in the African Methodist Church", served as a voter registration organizer, Justice of the Peace, a delegate to the Georgia Constitut ...

, State Senator from Georgia *

George Wallace George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and ...

, State Senator from Hancock, Baldwin and Washington counties

Georgia House of Representatives

Eli Barnes Eli Barnes was a representative in the Georgia Assembly as a Republican during the Reconstruction Era. A former slave who worked as a mechanic, he was African American. He was elected in 1868 and represented Hancock County, Georgia in the 80th ...

, state legislator from Hancock County *

Abram Colby Abram Colby was an American minister and politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. He was enslaved owned by his Irish father.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 19 ...

, state representative from Greene County *

James Ward Porter James Ward Porter was elected a state representative in Georgia during the Reconstruction era, representing Chatham County. Before becoming a representative he was the owner of a tailor's shop in Savannah. This was unusual, as the laws in Georgi ...

, state legislator from Chatham County *

Henry McNeal Turner Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 – May 8, 1915) was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he worked to establish new A.M ...

, state legislator from Bibb County *

William Guilford William A. Guilford (5 February 1844 – c. October 1909) was a businessman and state legislator from Upson County, Georgia.; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., ''African American National Biography'' (Harvard University ...

, state legislator from Upson County *

William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest pres ...

, state legislator from Hancock County * Thomas M. Allen, state representative from Jasper County *

Thomas Beard Thomas Beard (died 1632) was an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of ''The Theatre of Gods Judgements'', and the schoolmaster of Oliver Cromwell at Huntingdon. Life He was, it is believed, a native of ...

, state representative from

Richmond County Richmond County may refer to places: Australia *Richmond County, New South Wales, a cadastral division Canada *Richmond County, Nova Scotia United Kingdom *Richmondshire, the original Richmond County in Yorkshire, England United States ...

Edwin Belcher Edwin Belcher (born c. 1845) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a Freedmen Bureau official in Monroe County, Georgia after the war, and then a state senator in the Georgia Legislature representing Wilkes County, Geor ...

, state representative from Wilkes County * George H. Clower, state representative from

Monroe County Monroe County may refer to seventeen counties in the United States, all named for James Monroe: * Monroe County, Alabama *Monroe County, Arkansas * Monroe County, Florida * Monroe County, Georgia *Monroe County, Illinois *Monroe County, Indian ...

, state representative from Greene County *

Romulus Moore Reverend Romulus Moore (January 1818 - before 1888) was a politician and leader of the early civil rights movement after the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era in the U.S. state of Georgia. An African American, Moore was elected to ...

, state representative from Columbia County *

John T. Costin John T. Costin was a Republican Party organizer, a member of the Georgia Legislature, and a minister in Georgia, United States, during the Reconstruction Era (1863 or 1865 - 1877). Costin helped form the Republican Party of Georgia He met with U ...

, state representative from Talbot County *

Madison Davis Madison "Mat" Davis (September 27, 1833 – August 20, 1902) was a slave who became a member of the Georgia Assembly representing Clarke County, Georgia and the first African American postmaster in Athens, Georgia, after being emancipated. He wa ...

, state representative from

Clarke County Clarke County may refer to: ;Places *One of five counties in the United States: **Clarke County, Alabama **Clarke County, Georgia **Clarke County, Iowa **Clarke County, Mississippi **Clarke County, Virginia Clarke County is a county in the Com ...

* Monday Floyd, state representative from Morgan County *

F. H. Fyall F. H. Fyall was a state Representative in the U.S. state of Georgia during the Reconstruction era. He was one of the Original 33 African Americans elected as legislators in Georgia. He was owned as a slave earlier in his life. His eligibility t ...

, state representative from Macon County *

Samuel Gardner Samuel Gardner (August 25, 1891, Kropyvnytskyi, Elizavetgrad – January 23, 1984) was an American composer and violinist of Russian Jewish origin. He won a Pulitzer prize with a string quartet in 1918. He was a student of Franz Kneisel and Percy ...

, state representative from

Warren County Warren County is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. Some are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War: * Warren County, Georgia * Warren County, Illinois * Warren County ...

* William A. Golden, state representative from Liberty County * Ulysses L. Houston, state representative from Bryan County * James M. Simms, state representative from Chatham County * Philip Joiner, state representative from Dougherty County * George Linder, state representative from Laurens County *

Robert Lumpkin The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

, state representative from Macon County * Peter O'Neal, state representative from Baldwin County * Alfred Richardson, state representative from

Alexander Stone Alexander Stone was a member of Georgia's constitutional convention held in 1867 and 1868 and was an elected member of the Georgia Legislature in 1868. He was a Republican. Biography Stone and 25 of 29 African Americans elected during the post-A ...

, state representative from Jefferson County * Abraham Smith, state representative from

Muscogee County Muscogee County is a county located on the central western border of the U.S. state of Georgia; its western border with the state of Alabama is formed by the Chattahoochee River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 206,922. Its county se ...

John Warren John Warren may refer to: Medicine * John Warren (surgeon) (1753–1815), American surgeon during the Revolutionary War * John Collins Warren (1778–1856), American surgeon * John Collins Warren Jr. (1842–1927), American surgeon, son of John C ...

, state representative from Burke County * Samuel Williams, state representative from Harris County * Hercules Wilson, state representative from McIntosh County (1882-1885) *

Amos Rogers Amos Rodgers, often spelled Amos Rogers, was an American politician. He was a state legislator in Georgia. He represented McIntosh County, Georgia from 1878 through 1879. See also *African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstru ...

, state representative from McIntosh County (1878-1879) *

Lectured Crawford 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. C ...

, state representative from McIntosh County (1886-1887, 1890-1891, 1900–1901) *

Jack Heard Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name) Jack is a given ...

, state representative from Greene County (1873-1874) *

A. Simmons A is the first letter of the Latin and English alphabet. A may also refer to: Science and technology Quantities and units * ''a'', a measure for the attraction between particles in the Van der Waals equation * A value, ''A'' value, a mea ...

, state representative from Houston County (1871-1872) *

James Blue James Blue (October 10, 1930 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – June 14, 1980 in Buffalo, New York) was a filmmaker. His most notable films were ''Les oliviers de la justice'' (literal English title ''The Olive Trees of Justice'') (1962, US), ''A Few Notes ...

, state representative from Glynn County (1871-1877) * J.A. Lewis, state representative from Stewart County (1871-1872) *

Thomas M. Butler Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

, state representative from Camden County (1878-1879) * John M. Holzendorf, state representative from Camden County (1890-1891)

Other officials

* William Finch and

George Graham George Graham (born 30 November 1944), nicknamed "Stroller", is a Scottish former Association football, football player and manager (association football), manager. In his successful playing career, he made 455 appearances in England's Football ...

, first two African Americans that were elected to serve on the Atlanta Board of Aldermen (now

Atlanta City Council The Atlanta City Council is the main municipal legislative body for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It consists of 16 members primarily elected from 12 districts within the city. The Atlanta City Government is divided into three bo ...

)

Illinois

Illinois House of Representatives

John W. E. Thomas John William Edinburgh Thomas ( May 1, 1847 – December 18, 1899) was an American businessman, educator, and Illinois politician. Born into slavery in Alabama, he moved to Chicago after the Civil War, where he became a prominent community leade ...

(1847–1899) – Served 1877–1879 and 1882–1886 *

George French Ecton George French Ecton (1846 – September 19, 1929) was a civil rights activist and the second African American state legislator in Illinois. He was born a slave in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1846 to Antonio Ecton and Martha George. In June 1865, a ...

(1846–1929) – Served 1888–1890 *

James E. Bish James E. Bish (October 1, 1859 - ''unknown'') was a state legislator in Illinois. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897. He wrote ''Past, Present, and the Future of the Negro''. He was born October 1, 1859, in St. F ...

(born 1859) – Served 1893–? *

John C. Buckner John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(died 1913) – Served in 41st and 42nd general assemblies * William L. Martin – *

Edward H. Morris Edward H. Morris (May 30, 1858 – February 3, 1943) was an American lawyer and state legislator in Illinois. Biography Edward H. Morris was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, on May 30, 1858. He graduated from St. Patrick's High School, Chicago ...

(1858–1943) – Served 1890–1892 and 1902–1904

Indiana

Indiana did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era, with James S. Hinton being the first African American to serve in the Indiana state legislature 1881–1882.

Kansas

Kansas did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era, with

Alfred Fairfax Alfred B. Fairfax (1843 – March 1, 1916) was an American politician. He was born in Virginia. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He became active in the Republican Party. He served in the Kansas House of Representativ ...

being the first African American to serve in the Indiana state legislature 1888–1889.

Louisiana

In Louisiana, 24 African Americans served in the

Louisiana Senate The Louisiana State Senate (french: Sénat de Louisiane) is the upper house of the Louisiana State Legislature, state legislature of Louisiana. All senators serve four-year terms and are assigned to multiple committees. Composition The Louis ...

and more than 100 served in the

Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...

. In addition, six black men held statewide office in Louisiana, including the nation's first and second black acting governors. *

Oscar James Dunn Oscar James Dunn (1822 – November 22, 1871) served as a Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction and was the first African American to act as governor of a U.S. state. In 1868, Dunn became the first elected black ...

, acting governor of Louisiana, May - July 1871 *

, acting governor of Louisiana, December 1872 - January 1873 Three African Americans served as Louisiana's lieutenant governor. *

, lieutenant governor, 1868–1871, first African American elected to a state-level position in the United States *

, lieutenant governor, 1872 *

Caesar Antoine Caesar Carpentier Antoine (1836–1921) was a soldier, businessman, editor, and politician in Louisiana. He served as a state senator for Caddo Parish from 1868 until 1872 when he was elected the third of three African American Republicans to s ...

, lieutenant governor, 1873-1877 Others served as secretary of state, state treasurer, and state superintendent of education. *

Pierre G. Deslonde Pierre George Deslondes, last name sometimes spelled Deslonde (born ), was an African-American sugar planter who served as Secretary of State of Louisiana during the Reconstruction era. He was a wealthy freeman. He served as secretary of state from ...

, secretary of state *

Antoine Dubuclet Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first perso ...

, state treasurer * William G. Brown, state superintendent of education

Members of the Louisiana Senate

* Theophile T. Allain – served 1874-1880 (also representative) *

– server 1868–1872 * Alexander E. Barber – served 1870-1874 *

Raiford Blunt Albert Raiford Blunt (1837 - March 19, 1905), also spelled Raiford Blount and Raford Blunt, was a Baptist minister, teacher and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate. Biograp ...

– served 1872-1875 (also representative) * J. Henry Burch – served 1872-1876 * Edward Butler – served 1870-1874 *

Thomas Cage Thomas A. Cage (c. 1845 – December 10, 1896) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era and the Louisiana House of Representatives and again the Louisiana State Senate post reconstruction. Bi ...

– served 1872-1880 (also representative) *

Oscar Crozier Oscar Crozier was a sugar planter and state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era from 1874 until 1875. Biography Crozier was born circa 1843 and was a sugar planter from Lafourche Parish, Louisian ...

– of Lafourche, served 1874-April 1875 *

Henry Demas Henry Demas (1848–1900) was an enslaved African American who became a constable, state legislator, civil rights activist, and organizer of Southern University in Louisiana during the Reconstruction era. Early life Demas was born into slavery o ...

– served 1876-1880 and 1884-1892 (also representative) *

Emile Detiège Emile Detiège (born c. 1840) was a sheriff and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana Senate from 1874 to 1876. He represented St. Martin Parish. Eric Foner documented him as a French speaking "quadroon" born to a family of jew ...

– served 1874-1876 *

Andrew Dumont Andrew J. Dumont (1845 - June 30, 1885) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. Biography Dumont was born a free man in 1845 in Plaquemines Parish, ...

– served 1874-1878 (also representative) * Alexander R. François – served 1868-1869 (murdered) *

Jacques Gla Jacques Gla (1833/4-1894) was an American politician. He was a member of the Louisiana State Senate in 1872 and again from 1874 to 1880. He lived in East Carroll. Gla was born free in New Orleans in 1833/4 to an old Creole family. In 1862, federal ...

– served 1872 and 1874-1880 * Robert F. Guichard – served 1884-1892 (also representative) * William Harper – served 1872-1880 * George Y. Kelso – served 1868-1876 * Pierre Caliste Landry – served 1874-1878 (also representative) * Jules A. Masicot – served 1872-1876 (also representative) * Julien J. Monette – served 1868-1870 *

– served 1868-1871 *

Robert Poindexter Robert Poindexter (September 25, 1897 – June 8, 1930), nicknamed "Roy", was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s. Poindexter made his Negro leagues debut in 1924 with the Birmingham Black Barons. He went on to play for the Chicag ...

– served 1868-1870 (also representative) *

Curtis Pollard Curtis Pollard was a minister, farmer, store keeper and state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. Biography Pollard was born in Virginia and in the 1870 United States census Pollard was listed a ...

– served 1868-1870 and 1872-1876 * John Randall (politician), John Randall - served 1868-1869 (died in office) * Richard Simms – served 1880-1892 (also representative) * T. B. Stamps – served 1872-1880 (also representative) * Jordan R. Stewart – served 1880-1888 (also representative) * David Young (Louisiana politician), David Young – served 1874-1878 (also representative)

Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives

* Curron J. Adolphe – represented New Orleans 1868-1872 * Frank Alexander (Louisiana politician), Frank Alexander (b. 1838/9) – represented New Orleans 1868-1870 * Theophile T. Allain – represent 1872-1874 (also senator) * Arthur Antoine – represented St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish 1872-1874 *

– represented West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, West Baton Rouge Parish 1870-1872 (also senator) * Thornton Butler – represented Orleans Parish 1874-1880 * Joseph Connaughton (politician) – represented Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Rapides Parish 1872-1875 * Aristede Dejoie – represent New Orleans 1872-1874 and 1877-1879 *

– represent 1870-1874 and 1879-1880 (also senator) *

– represent 1872-1874 * Jean-Baptiste Esnard – represented St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish 1868-1870 * John Gair – represented East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish 1868-1870 and 1872-1874 * Robert F. Guichard – represented St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, St. Bernard Parish 1872-18742 (also senator) * William Harper – represented Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Caddo Parish 1870-1872 * Robert Isabelle – served 1868-1870 * R. M. J. Kenner – represented New Orleans 1870-1872 * Pierre Caliste Landry – served 1872-1874 and 1880-1884 (also senator) * Charles Leroy – represented Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish 1868-1870 * Joseph Mansion (Louisiana politician), Joseph Mansion – served 1868-1870 * Louis A. Martinet – represented St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish 1872-1875 * Jules A. Masicot (1868-1872) – served 1868-1872 (also senator) * Milton Morris (Louisiana politician), Milton Morris – represented Ascension Parish 1868-1870 * William Murrell (politician, died 1892), William Murrell – represented Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Lafourche Parish 1868-1870 and 1872-1874 * William Murrell Jr. – represented Madison Parish 1872-1876 and 1879-1880 * Anthony Overton, Sr. – represented Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, Ouachita Parish 1870-1872. Father of Anthony Overton *

– served 1874 - April 1875 (also senator) * Robert R. Ray – represented East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish 1874-1876 * Victor Rochon – represented St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish 1872 - April 1875 and 1888-1890 * Richard Simms (politician), Richard Simms – represented St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, St. Landry Parish 1872-1874 and 1876-1878 (also senator) * T. B. Stamps – served 1870-1872 (also senator) * Jordan R. Stewart – represented Tensas Parish, Louisiana, Tensas Parish 1872-1876 (also senator) * Robert J. Taylor – represented West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, West Feliciana Parish 1868-1870 * George Washington (Louisiana politician), George Washington – represented Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Concordia Parish 1870-1874 and 1877-1879 * W. C. Williams (Politician), W. C. Williams – represented East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish 1868-1870 * David Young (Louisiana politician), David Young – represented Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Concordia Parish 1868-1874 and 1880-1884 (also senator)

Local offices

* Pierre Caliste Landry, mayor of Donaldsonville, the first African American mayor elected in the United States * Thomas Morris Chester, superintendent of school district (1875) * James Lewis (Louisiana politician), James Lewis, administrator of public improvements in New Orleans in 1872, appointed New Orleans naval officer in 1877 * Pierre Magloire, Avoyelles Parish Sheriff, Louisiana (1872) * Alexander Noguez, Avoyelles Parish Sheriff, Louisiana (1868–1872)

Maryland

Local offices

* William Butler (Maryland politician), William Butler, Member of the Annapolis Board of Aldermen (1873) * William H. Day, Baltimore Inspector of Schools, in 1878 he was elected to the school board of directors at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

Massachusetts House of Representatives

* Edward G. Walker, 1866 * Charles Lewis Mitchell, 1866 * John J. Smith, Massachusetts House, 1868, 1872 * George Lewis Ruffin, Massachusetts House, 1870 * Lewis Hayden, Massachusetts House, 1873 * Joshua Bowen Smith, Massachusetts House, 1873 * George W. Lowther, Massachusetts House, 1878 * Julius C. Chappelle, Massachusetts House, 1883 * William O. Armstrong, Massachusetts House, 1887 * Andrew B. Lattimore, Massachusetts House, 1889 * Charles E. Harris, Massachusetts House, 1892 * Robert T. Teamoh, Massachusetts House, 1894 * William L. Reed (Massachusetts), William L. Reed, Massachusetts House, 1896

Local offices

* James Monroe Trotter, mail agent

Michigan

House

* William Webb Ferguson, 1893 * Joseph H. Dickinson, 1897

Local offices

* Samuel C. Watson, State Board of Estimates, 1875; Detroit City Council, 1875, 1883-1886

Minnesota

Minnesota did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era, with John Francis Wheaton being the first African American to serve in the Minnesota state legislature as a representative 1899–1900.

Mississippi

The Mississippi Plan was part of an organized effort campaign of terror and violence the Democratic Party and Ku Klux Klan used to disenfranchise African Americans in Mississippi, block them from holding office, end Reconstruction, and restore white supremacy in the state.

U.S. Senate

Mississippi was the only U.S. state that elected African American candidates to the U.S. Senate during the Reconstruction Era: *

( R), Senator from Mississippi (1870-1871) *

(R), Senator from Mississippi (1875-1881)

Members of the Mississippi Senate

* George W. Albright – served 1874-1879 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County * Peter Barnabas Barrow – served 1872-1875 (also representative) * Countelow M. Bowles – served 1872-1875 and 1877-1878 (also representative) * Charles Caldwell (politician), Charles Caldwell – served 1872-1875 * George Washington Gayles – served 1878-1886 (also representative) * Robert Gleed – served 1870-1875 representing Lowndes County, Mississippi, Lowndes County * William H. Gray (Mississippi politician), William H. Gray – served 1870-1875 representing Washington County, Mississippi, Washington County * Nathan Shirley – served 1874-1879 * George C. Smith (Mississippi politician), George C. Smith – served 1874-1875 representing Coahoma County, Mississippi, Coahoma County * Isham Stewart – served 1874-1879 (also representative) * Thomas W. Stringer – served 1870-1871 * Jeremiah M. P. Williams – served 1870-1874 and 1878-1880

Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives

''Representative in italics served pre 1900 but not in the 1865–1877 main reconstruction period'' * ''L. K. Altwood'' – served 1880-1881 and 1884-1885 representing Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County * Peter Barnabas Barrow – served 1871-1871 representing Warren County, Mississippi, Warren County (also Senator) * ''Stephen Blackwell'' – served 1882-1889 representing Issaquena County, Mississippi, Issaquena County * Jesse Freeman Boulden – served 1870-1871 representing Lowndes County, Mississippi, Lowndes County * Countelow M. Bowles – served 1870-1871 representing Bolivar County, Mississippi, Bolivar County (also Senator) * ''George F. Bowles'' – served 1881-1894 representing Adams County, Mississippi, Adams County * Anderson Boyd (politician), Anderson Boyd – served 1874-1875 representing Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County * George W. Boyd – served 1874-1875 representing Warren County, Mississippi, Warren County * Walter Boyd (politician), Walter Boyd – served 1874-1875 representing Yazoo County, Mississippi, Yazoo County * Orange Brunt – served 1874-1875 representing Panola County, Mississippi, Panola County * ''George William Butler'' – served 1884-1894 representing Sharkey County, Mississippi, Sharkey County * J. Wesley Caradine – served 1874-1875 representing Clay County, Mississippi, Clay County * James Cessor – served 1871-1877 representing Jefferson County, Mississippi, Jefferson County * George Washington Chavis – served 1874-1875 representing Warren County, Mississippi, Warren County * Benjamin Chiles – served 1874-1878 representing Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County * Richard Christmas – served 1874-1875 representing Copiah County, Mississippi, Copiah County * Charles P. Clemens – served 1874-1875 representing Clarke County, Mississippi, Clarke County * ''Milton Coates'' – served 1882-1885 representing Warren County, Mississippi, Warren County * Thomas A. Cotton – served 1874-1875 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County * ''Felix L. Cory'' – served 1884-1886 representing Adams County, Mississippi, Adams County * Alexander Kelso Davis – served 1870-1873 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County * Willis Davis (Mississippi politician), Willis Davis – served 1874-1876 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County * Weldon W. Edwards – served 1874-1877 and 1882-1883 representing Warren County, Mississippi, Warren County * Samuel Fitzhugh – served 1874-1876 representing Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Wilkinson County * George Washington Gayles – served 1872-1875 representing Bolivar County, Mississippi, Bolivar County (also Senator) * David S. Green – served 1872-1875 representing Grenada County, Mississippi, Grenada County * Alfred Newton Handy – served 1870-1875 representing Madison County, Mississippi, Madison County * Emanuel Handy – served 1870-1873 representing Copiah County, Mississippi, Copiah County * W. H. Harris – served 1874-1875 and 1888-1889 representing Washington County, Mississippi, Washington County * Henry H. Harrison – served 1874-1875 representing Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Chickasaw County * John Franklin Henry – served 1884-1885 representing Madison County, Mississippi, Madison County * Weldon Hicks – served 1874-1875 and 1878 representing Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County * Wilson Hicks (politician), Wilson Hicks – served 1874-1875 representing Rankin County, Mississippi, Rankin County * David Higgins (Mississippi politician), David Higgins – served 1870-1872 representing Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County * James Hill (Mississippi politician), James Hill – served 1872-1873 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County (Also Secretary of State of Mississippi) * Perry Howard – served 1872-1875 representing Holmes County, Mississippi, Holmes County * J. H. Johnson (politician), J. H. Johnson – served 1872-1875 representing DeSoto County, Mississippi, DeSoto County * William H. Jones (Mississippi politician), William H. Jones – served 1874-1877 representing Issaquena County, Mississippi, Issaquena County * Reuben Kendrick – served 1872-1875 representing Amite County, Mississippi, Amite County * William Landers – served 1872-1876 representing Jefferson County, Mississippi, Jefferson County * Samuel W. Lewis (politician), Samuel W. Lewis – served 1884-1885 representing Madison County, Mississippi, Madison County * John R. Lynch – served 1870-1873 representing Adams County, Mississippi, Adams County (also elected to U.S. House of Representatives) * William H. Lynch – served 1874-1877 and 1882-1889 representing Adams County, Mississippi, Adams County * Daniel T. J. Mathews – served 1874-1875 representing Panola County, Mississippi, Panola County * Thomas McCain – served 1872-1875 representing DeSoto County, Mississippi, DeSoto County * J. W. McFarland – served 1874-1875 representing Rankin County, Mississippi, Rankin County * Marshall McNeese – served 1870-1871 and 1874-1877 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County * Joseph E. Monroe – served 1874-1877 representing Coahoma County, Mississippi, Coahoma County * John H. Morgan (Mississippi), John H. Morgan – served 1870-1875 representing Washington County, Mississippi, Washington County * George G. Mosely – served 1874-1875 representing Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County * Cato Nathan – served 1874-1875 representing Monroe County, Mississippi, Monroe County * Randle Nettles – served 1870-1873 representing Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County * Lawrence W. Overton – served 1876 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County * ''Jones R. Parker'' – served 1884-1885 representing Washington County, Mississippi, Washington County * James G. Patterson – served 1874-1875 representing Yazoo County, Mississippi, Yazoo County * A. Peal – served 1874-1875 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County * ''Perry Peyton'' – served 1884-1885 representing Bolivar County, Mississippi, Bolivar County * James H. Piles – served 1870-1875 representing Panola County, Mississippi, Panola County * ''Albert B. Poston'' – served 1882-1883 representing Panola County, Mississippi, Panola County * J. W. Randolph – served 1874-1875 representing Sunflower County, Mississippi, Sunflower County and Leflore County, Mississippi, Leflore County * Charles Reese (politician), Charles Reese – served 1872-1873 representing Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County * Elzy Richards – served 1872-1875 representing Lowndes County, Mississippi, Lowndes County * A. A. Rogers – served 1874-1875 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County * Edmund Scarborough (Mississippi politician), Edmund Scarborough – served 1870-1871 representing Holmes County, Mississippi * ''Gray Selby'' – served 1880-1881 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County * James S. Simmons (Mississippi), James S. Simmons – served 1874-1875 and 1883-1884 representing Issaquena County, Mississippi, Issaquena County and Washington County, Mississippi, Washington County * Gilbert C. Smith – served 1872-1875 and 1884-1885 representing Tunica County, Mississippi, Tunica County * Haskin Smith – served 1872-1876 representing Claiborne County, Mississippi, Claiborne County * Joseph Smothers – served 1872-1875 representing Claiborne County, Mississippi, Claiborne County * James J. Spelman – served 1869-1875 representing Madison County, Mississippi, Madison County (also justice of the peace and alderman of the city of Canton, Mississippi) * Isham Stewart – served 1870-1873 representing Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee County (also senator) * Thomas Sykes (Mississippi politician), Thomas Sykes – served 1873 representing Panola County, Mississippi, Panola County * Robert Thompson (Mississippi politician), Robert Thompson – served 1874-1875 representing Lowndes County, Mississippi, Lowndes County * Harrison Truhart – served 1872-1875 representing Holmes County, Mississippi, Holmes County * Jefferson Cobb Walker – served 1874-1875 representing Monroe County, Mississippi, Monroe County * George Washington (Mississippi politician), George Washington – served 1874-1875 representing Carroll County, Mississippi, Carroll County * Tenant Weatherly – served 1874-1875 and 1880-1881 representing Holmes County, Mississippi, Holmes County * Eugene Welborne – served 1874-1875 representing Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County * George White (Mississippi), George White – served 1874-1875 representing Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Chickasaw County * Ralph Williams (politician), Ralph Williams – served 1873-1875 representing Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall County

Other

* Thomas Cardozo, Mississippi Superintendent of Education * Alexander K. Davis, Lieutenant Governor, Mississippi House of Representatives * James D. Lynch, Secretary of State of Mississippi

Nebraska

Members of the Nebraska House of Representatives

* Matthew Ricketts, Matthew Oliver Ricketts (1893 - 1897)

Local offices

* Edwin R. Overall, appointed mail carrier in 1869

North Carolina

* Israel Abbott, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1872-1874) * John O. Crosby, 1875 delegate from Warren County, North Carolina to the North Carolina State Constitutional Convention * James Walker Hood, commissioner for the states public schools and assistant superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina (1868-1871) * John S. Leary, North Carolina State legislature (1868-1871), alderman in Fayetteville, North Carolina (1876-1877)

Ohio

Members of the Ohio Senate

* John Patterson Green, 1892

Members of the Ohio House of Representatives

* George Washington Williams, George W. Williams, 1879 * John Patterson Green, 1882 * Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 * Jere A. Brown, 1886 * Robert Harlan, 1886 * William H. Copeland, 1888 * George H. Jackson (politician), George H. Jackson, 1892 * William H. Clifford, 1894 * Samuel B. Hill (Ohio politician), Samuel B. Hill, 1894 * Harry Clay Smith, 1894-1898, 1899-1902 * William H. Parham, 1896 * William R. Stewart, 1896 * George A. Myers, 1897

Local offices

* Jeremiah A. Brown, Cleveland, bailiff of the county probate court, deputy sheriff and county prison turnkey, then clerk of the City Boards of Equalization and Revision. * Robert James Harlan, mail agent

South Carolina

* Francis Lewis Cardozo, Secretary of State of South Carolina (18681872), South Carolina State Treasurer (18721877) * Robert B. Elliott, State House lawmaker, and U.S. Representative from South Carolina * Richard Theodore Greener, South Carolina school system commissioner, 1875. * Albert Osceola Jones, clerk of South Carolina House of Representatives, 1868-1876. * Robert Smalls, South Carolina House of Representatives, South Carolina Representative, South Carolina Senate, South Carolina Senator, United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative * D. Augustus Straker, South Carolina House of Representatives, also Inspector of Customs at the port of Charleston and clerk in the auditors office of the treasury in Washington * Alonzo J. Ransier, Lt. Governor of South Carolina (December 3, 1870 – December 7, 1872) and later served as US Congressman (March 3, 1873 – March 3, 1875) * Jonathan J. Wright, lawyer, South Carolina State Senator (November 24, 1868 – January 30, 1870) and First Black Associate Justice of South Carolina Supreme Court (January 11, 1870 – December 1, 1877)

Members of South Carolina Senate

*George W. Barber (politician), George W. Barber - Fairfield County, South Carolina, Fairfield County (1868–1872) *Isreal R. Bird - Fairfield County, South Carolina, Fairfield County - Possibly a mistake as one found so far in one source and not in the papers of ''freedom lawmakers'' *Lawrence Cain - Edgefield, South Carolina, Edgefield (1872–1876) *Richard H. Cain - Orangeburg, South Carolina, Orangeburg (1868-1870) *Henry Cardozo - Kershaw, South Carolina, Kershaw (1870-1874) *Frederick A. Clinton - Lancaster, South Carolina, Lancaster (1868–1877) *Hiram W. Duncan - Union County, South Carolina, Union County (1868–1872) *Samuel L. Duncan - Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Orangeburg County (1876-1880) *Sanders Ford - Fairfield County, South Carolina, Fairfield County (1872-1873) *Joseph A. Green (South Carolina), Joseph A. Green - Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Orangeburg County *Samuel Green (politician), Samuel Green - Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County (1875-1877) *Charles D. Hayne - Aiken County, South Carolina, Aiken County (1872–1876) *Henry E. Hayne - Marion County, South Carolina, Marion County (1868-1872) *William R. Hoyt - Colleton County, South Carolina, Colleton County (1868-1870) *James L. Jamison - Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Orangeburg County (1870–1872) *William E. Johnston (politician), William E. Johnston (1869-1877) *John Lee (South Carolina politician), John Lee - Chester County, South Carolina, Chester County (1872-1874) *Moses Martin (South Carolina), Moses Martin - Fairfield County, South Carolina, Fairfield County (1873-1876) *Thomas E. Miller - Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County (1880-1882) *William Fabriel Myers - Colleton County, South Carolina, Colleton County (1874-1878) *William B. Nash - Richland County, South Carolina, Richland County (1868-1877) *Joseph H. Rainey - Georgetown, South Carolina, Georgetown (1868-18170) *Benjamin F. Randolph - Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Orangeburg County (1868) *Thomas J. Reynolds - Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County *Hamilton Robinson (South Carolina politician), Hamilton Robinson - Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County *Robert Simmons (South Carolina), Robert Simmons - Berkeley County, South Carolina, Berkeley County (1882-1886) *Robert Smalls - Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County (1870-1875) *Dublin I. Walker - Chester County, South Carolina, Chester County (1874-1877) *Reverend Jared D. Warley - Clarendon County, South Carolina, Clarendon County (1874-1877) *Reverend Bruce H. Williams - Chester County, South Carolina, Chester County (1876-1887) *Lucius Winbush - Chester County, South Carolina, Chester County (1868-1872) may be Wimbush *Jonathan Jasper Wright - Beaufort County, South Carolina (1840-1887)

Members of South Carolina House of Representatives

*William Adamson (South Carolina), William Adamson representing Kershaw County from 1868 until 1870 *Frank Adamson representing Kershaw County from 1870 until 1874 *Jacob C. Allman representing Marion County from 1872 until 1876 *Robert B. Artson representing Charleston County from 1872 until 1874 *R. B. Anderson Georgetown County from 1890 to 1898 *William J. Andrews Sumter County from 1874 to 1876 *Samuel J. Bampfield Beaufort *John B. Bascomb representing Beaufort County *J. A. Baxter Georgetown County from 1884 to 1890 *W. W. Beckett representing Berkeley Countyfrom 1882 to 1884 *W. A. Bishop representing Greenville Countyfrom 1868 until 1870 *J. W. Bolts Georgetown County from 1898 to 1900 also served from 1900 to 1902 *Benjamin A. Bosemon representing Charleston County from 1868 until 1873 *John Boston (politician), John Boston representing Darlington County *Joseph D. Boston representing Newberry County from 1868 until 1876 *James A. Bowley representing Georgetown County from 1869 until 1874 *E. M. Brayton Aiken *Sampson S. Bridges Newberry *Peter Bright Charleston *William Brodie (South Carolina), William Brodie Charleston *Stephen Brown (South Carolina), Stephen Brown Charleston *Richard Bryan (South Carolina), Richard Bryan Charleston *Benjamin Byos representing Berkeley County/Orangeburg County from 1870 until 1872 *H. Z. Burchmeyer Charleston *Barney Burton Chester *Everidge Cain Abbeville *Edward J. Cain Orangeburg *Lawrence Cain Edgefield *Richard H. Cain Orangeburg *Christian Wesley Caldwell representing Orangeburg from 1876 to 1878 *John A. Chestnut Kershaw *Caesar P. Chisolm Colleton *Simon P. Coker Barnwell *Wilson Cooke Greenville *Samuel Coleman Chester in 1875 and 1876 *Augustus Collins Clarendon *Andrew W. Curtis Richland *Abram Dannerly representing Orangeburg County *Nelson Davies York County from 1873 to 1876 *James Davis (South Carolina), James Davis Richland *Thomas A. Davis (South Carolina), Thomas A. Davis representing Charleston County from 1870 until 1876 *Robert C. DeLarge Charleston *Eugene Herriot Dibble Kershaw *John Dix (South Carolina), John Dix Orangeburg *Samuel B. Doiley Charleston *Paul B. Drayton representing Charleston County from 1880 to 1882 *William A. Driffle Colleton *Samuel L. Duncan Orangeburg County *S. C. Eckhard representing Charleston County from 1878 to 1880 *W. T. Elfe Charleston *Robert B. Elliott representing Barnwell/Edgefield/Aiken *William E. Elliott Charleston *Henry H. Ellison Abbeville *John Evans (South Carolina), John Evans Williamsburg *Philllip E. Ezekiel Beaufort *Simeon Farr Union *Simeon Farrow Union *T. R. Fields Beaufort *Adam P. Ford Charleston *Ellis Forrest Orangeburg *William H. Frazier Colleton *B. G. Frederick Orangeburg *John M. Freeman, Jr. Charleston *Florian Henry Frost Williamsburg *Reuben Gaither representing Kershaw County from 1870 until 1877 *William H. Gardner Sumter *Stephen Gary representing Kershaw County from 1870-1872 and 1874-1876 *Hastings Gantt Beaufort *John Gardner (South Carolina), John Gardner Edgefield *Ebenezer F. George Kershaw *John Gibson (South Carolina), John Gibson Fairfield *Fortune Giles representing Williamsburg County *John T. Gilmore Richland *William C. Glover Charleston *Mitchell Goggins Abbeville *Aesop Goodson Richland *David Graham (South Carolina), David Graham Edgefield *John G. Grant (South Carolina), John G. Grant Marlboro *William A. Grant (South Carolina), William A. Grant Charleston *Charles Samuel Green Georgetown *John Green (South Carolina politician), John Green Edgefield *Samuel Greene (politician), Samuel Greene representing Beaufort County from 1870 until 1875 *Ishom Greenwood Newberry *Thomas Hamilton (South Carolina), Thomas Hamilton Beaufort *James J. Hardy representing Charleston County in 1870 and 1871 * Alfred Hart (South Carolina), Alfred Hart Darlington *R. M. Harriett Georgetown *David Harris (South Carolina), David Harris Edgefield *Eben Hayes representing Marion County, South Carolina, Marion County *Charles D. Hayne Barnwell *James N. Hayne Barnwell *William A. Hayne Marion *Plato P. Hedges Charleston *John T. Henderson Newberry *James A. Henderson (South Carolina), James A. Henderson Newberry *Gloster H. Holland Aiken County *Abraham P. Holmes Colleton *A. H. Howard Marion *Allison W. Hough Kershaw *Richard H. Humbert Darlington *Barney Humphries Chester *Allen Hudson Lancaster *Alfred T. B. Hunter, state representative from Laurens County, South Carolina, Laurens County (18741876) *Austin Jackson (South Carolina), Austin Jackson Barnwell *Henry Jacobs (South Carolina), Henry Jacobs Fairfield *Burrell James Sumter *James L. Jamison Orangeburg *Paul W. Jefferson Aiken *William R. Jervay Charleston *Griffin C. Johnson Laurens *John W. Johnson (South Carolina), John W. Johnson Marion *D. J. J. Johnson Chesterfield *Henry Johnson (South Carolina), Henry Johnson Fairfield *William E. Johnston(politician), William E. Johnston representing Sumter County, South Carolina, Sumter County in 1868-69 and 1769 *Samuel Johnson (South Carolina), Samuel Johnson Charleston *Marshall Jones (South Carolina), Marshall Jones Orangeburg *A. H. Jones Charleston *Paul E. Jones Orangeburg *William H. Jones (South Carolina), William H. Jones Georgetown *Samuel I. Keith Darlington *Jordan Lang Darlington *John Lee (South Carolina), John Lee Chester *Levi Lee Fairfield *George H. Lee (South Carolina), George H. Lee Charleston *Samuel J. Lee representing Edgefield County/Aiken County from 1868 until 1874 *Joseph W. Lloyd Charleston *John Lilley (South Carolina), John Lilley Chester *Aaron Logan Charleston *Hutson J. Lomax representing Abbeville County *William Lowman Richland *William Maree Colleton *Thomas Martin (South Carolina), Thomas Martin Abbeville *Julius Mayer (South Carolina), Julius Mayer Barnwell *James P. Mays Orangeburg *Harry McDaniels Laurens *Thomas D. McDowell Georgetown *William J. McKinlay representing Orangeburg/Charleston *John W. Meade York *George M. Mears Charleston *Edward C. Mickey Charleston *Benjamin Middleton Barnwell *Isaac Miller (South Carolina), Isaac Miller Fairfield *M. Miller Fairfield *Thomas E. Miller Beaufort from 1874 until 1880 *James Mills (South Carolina Politician), James Mills Laurens *L. S. Mills Beaufort *Syphax Milton Clarendon *Charles S. Minort Richland *F. S. Mitchell Beaufort *Junius S. Mobley Union *Alfred M. Moore Fairfield *Shadrack Morgan Orangeburg *William C. Morrison Beaufort *William J. Moultrie Georgetown *Jonas W. Nash representing Kershaw County *William Nelson (South Carolina), William Nelson Clarendon *Richard Nesbitt (South Carolina ), Richard Neabitt Charleston *Frederick Nix Jr. Barnwell *Charles F. North Charleston *Samuel Nuckles Union *Nathaniel B. Myers Beaufort County 1870-75 and 1876-77 *Joseph Alexander Owens Barnwell County *Robert John Palmer Richland *Joseph Parker (South Carolina), Joseph Parker Charleston *Jeffrey Pendergrass Williamsburg *Wade Perrin Laurens *James F. Peterson Williamsburg County from 1872 to 1878 *Edward Petty Charleston *William G. Pinckney Charleston *Thomas Pressley Williamsburg *Isaac Prioleau Charleston *Henry W. Purvis Lexington *Warren W. Ramsey representing Sumter County from 1869 until 1876 *Alonzo J. Ransier Charleston *Cain Ravenel Berkeley *George A. Reed Beaufort *A. C. Reynolds Beaufort *J. C. Rice Beaufort *Thomas Richardson (South Carolina), Thomas Richardson Colleton *Mark P. Richardson Berkeley *Henry Riley (South Carolina), Henry Riley Orangeburg *Prince R. Rivers Edgefield/Aiken *J. R. Rivers Beaufort *Joseph Robinson (South Carolina), Joseph Robinson Beaufort *J. C. Rue Beaufort *Alfred Rush Darlington *Thaddeus K. Sasportas Orangeburg *Sancho Saunders Chester *William C. Scott (South Carolina), William C. Scott Williamsburg *Robert F. Scott (South Carolina), Robert F. Scott Williamsburg *W. H. Sheppard Beaufort *Henry L. Shrewsburg Chesterfield *Augustus Simkins Edgefield *Paris Simpkins Edgefield *Hercules Simmons Colleton *Aaron Simmons Orangeburg *Benjamin Simmons (South Carolina), Benjamin Simmons Beaufort *Limus Simons Edgefield *William Simons (politician), William Simons Richland *Charles Sims (South Carolina), Charles Sims Chester *Andrew Singleton (South Carolina), Andrew Singleton Berkeley *James Singleton (South Carolina), James Singleton Berkeley *Asbury L. Singleton Sumter *J. P. Singleton Chesterfield *Robert Smalls Beaufort *Sherman Smalls Colleton *Rev. W. Smalls Charleston *James E. Smiling Sumter *Abraham W. Smith Charleston *Jackson A. Smith Darlington *Powell Smythe Clarendon *Butler Spears Sumter *James A. Spencer Abbeville *Nathaniel T. Spencer Charleston *Charles H. Sperry Georgetown *Henry Steele (South Carolina), Henry Steele York *Caesar Sullivan Laurens *Robert Tarlton Colleton *John W. Thomas (South Carolina), John W. Thomas Marlboro *Benjamin A. Thompson Marion *Samuel B. Thompson Richland *Joseph Thompson (South Carolina Politician), Joseph Thompson Richland *William M. Thomas Colleton *Julius C. Tingman Charleston *Robert Turner (South Carolina Politician), Robert Turner representing Charleston County from 1872 until 1873 *Richard M. Valentine representing Abbeville County in 1868 *John Vanderpool Charleston *Thomas H. Wallace Berkeley *Dublin Walker Chester from 1874 until 1877 *John Wallace (South Carolina Politician), John Wallace Orangeburg *Jared D. Warley Clarendon *J. J. Washington Beaufort *Archie Weldon Edgefield *James Wells (South Carolina Politician), James Wells Richland *John W. Westberry Sumter *Ellison M. Weston Richland *William James Whipper Beaufort *John H. White (South Carolina politician), John H. White *Hannibal A. Wideman Abbeville County *James Wigg Beaufort *Charles M. Wilder Richland *Bruce H. Williams (South Carolina Politician), Bruce H. Williams Georgetown *James Clement Wilson Sumter *Zachariah W. Wines Darlington *John B. Wright Charleston York County *Smart Wright Charleston *Prince Young Chester *James M. Young (South Carolina Politician), James M. Young Laurens

Local offices

* Harrison N. Bouey, probate judge in Edgefield County * James Wagoner, trial justice in York County

Tennessee

Only one African American served in the Tennessee Legislature during the 1870s, but more than a dozen followed in the 1880s as Republican's retook the governorship. They advocated for schools for African Americans, spoke against segregated public facilities some of which were off limits completely to African Americans, and advocated for voting rights protections. * Sampson W. Keeble (1873) * John W. Boyd (Tennessee politician), John W. Boyd (1881 - 1884) * Thomas F. Cassels (1881 - 1882) * Isaac F. Norris (1881 - 1882) * Thomas A. Sykes (1881 - 1882), also served in the North Carolina House of Representatives * Leon Howard (Tennessee politician), Leon Howard * David F. Rivers (1883 - 1884) * Greene E. Evans *William A. Feilds (1885 - 1886) * William C. Hodge *Monroe W. Gooden (1887-1889) * Samuel A. McElwee, member of the Tennessee General Assembly (1883 - 1888) *Styles Linton Hutchins (1887 - 1888) *Jesse M. H. Graham

Texas

Four African-Americans won election to the Texas Senate and 32 others served in the Texas House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.

Members of the Texas Senate

*George Ruby, George Thompson Ruby (1870-1871 and 1873) *Walter Moses Burton represented District 13 (Austin, Fort Bend, and Wharton Counties) 1874-1876 and District 17 (Fort Bend, Waller, and Wharton Counties) 1876-1883 *Matthew Gaines represented District 16 from 1870-1873 *Walter E. Riptoe (Riptoe/Ripeton)

Members of the Texas House of Representatives

*Richard Allen (Texas politician), Richard Allen (1869), ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1878 *Edward Anderson (19th-century Texas politician), Edward Anderson *Alexander Asberry *Houston A. P. Bassett *Thomas Beck (politician), Thomas Beck *D. W. Burley *Silas Cotton *Bird Davis *Goldsteen Dupree *Robert J. Evans *Jacob E. Freeman *Harriel G. Geiger *Melvin Goddin *Bedford G. Guy *Nathan H. Haller *Jeremiah J. Hamilton *William H. Holland (politician), William H. Holland *Mitchell Kendall *Robert A. Kerr *Doc C. Lewis *Robert A. Kerr (1842–1912) *David Medlock *John Mitchell (Texas legislator) *Henry Moore (Texas legislator) *Robert J. Moore *Sheppard Mullens *Edward Patton *Henry Phelps (politician), Henry Phelps *Meshack R. Roberts *Alonzo Sledge *Robert Lloyd Smith *Henry Sneed *James H. Washington *Allen W. Wilder *Benjamin Franklin Williams *Richard Williams (Texas legislator), Richard Williams *George W. Wyatt *E. C. Mobley (1883) representing Robertson County

Virginia

The Virginia Senate enacted Joint Resolution No. 89 in 2012 recognising that although federal Reconstruction ended in 1877 due to Jim Crow laws Reconstruction in Virginia lasted from 1869 to 1890.

Members of the Virginia Senate

* James W. D. Bland represented Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County from 1869 to 1870 * Cephas L. Davis represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1879 to 1880 * John M. Dawson (Virginia politician), John M. Dawson represented Charles City, Virginia, Charles City, Elizabeth City, Virginia, Elizabeth City, James City, Virginia, James City, Warwick County, Virginia, Warwick, and York County, Virginia, York counties from 1874 to 1877 * Joseph P. Evans represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1874 to 1875 * Nathaniel M. Griggs represented Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County from 1887 to 1890 * James R. Jones (Virginia politician), James R. Jones represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1875 to 1877 and from 1881 to 1883 * Isaiah L. Lyons represented Surry County, Virginia, Surry, York County, Virginia, York, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City, and Warwick County, Virginia, Warwick counties from 1869 to 1871 * William P. Moseley represented Goochland County, Virginia, Goochland County from 1869 to 1871 * Frank Moss (Virginia politician), Francis "Frank" Moss represented Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham County from 1869 to 1871 * Daniel M. Norton represented James City County, Virginia, James City and York County, Virginia, York Counties from 1871 to 1873 and from 1877 to 1887 * Guy Powell representing Nottoway County, Virginia, Nottoway , Lunenburg County, Virginia, Lunenburg , and Brunswick County, Virginia, Brunswick Counties from 1875 to 1878 * John Robinson (Virginia politician, born 1822), John Robinson represented Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland County from 1869 to 1873 * William N. Stevens represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1871 to 1878, and Sussex County, Virginia, Sussex County from 1881 to 1882 * George Teamoh represented Norfolk County, Virginia, Norfolk County from 1869 to 1871

Members of the Virginia House of Delegates

* William H. Andrews (Virginia politician), William H. Andrews represented Surry County, Virginia, Surry County from 1869 to 1871 * William H. Ash represented Amelia County, Virginia, Amelia and Nottoway County, Virginia, Nottoway counties from 1887 to 1888 * Briton Baskerville, Jr. represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1887 to 1888 * Edward David Bland represented Prince George County, Virginia, Prince George and Surry County, Virginia, Surry counties from 1879 to 1884 * Phillip S. Bolling represented Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland and Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham counties * Samuel P. Bolling represented Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland and Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham Counties 1884 - but his eligibility was successfully challenged by the Democratic Party and he was removed * Tazewell Branch represented Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County from 1874 to 1877 * William H. Brisby represented New Kent County, Virginia, New Kent County from 1869 to 1871 * Goodman Brown represented Prince George County, Virginia, Prince George and Surry County, Virginia, Surry counties from 1887 to 1888 * Peter J. Carter represented Northampton County, Virginia, Northampton County from 1871 to 1878 * Matt Clark (Virginia politician), Matt Clark represented Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County from 1874 to 1875 * George William Cole (Virginia politician), George William Cole represented Essex County, Virginia, Essex County from 1879 to 1880 * Asa Coleman represented Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County from 1871 to 1873 * Johnson Collins represented Brunswick County, Virginia, Brunswick County from 1879 to 1880 * Aaron Commodore represented Essex County, Virginia, Essex County from 1875 to 1877 * Miles Connor represented Norfolk County, Virginia, Norfolk County from 1875 to 1877 * Henry Cox (Virginia politician), Henry Cox represented Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield and Powhatan County, Virginia, Powhatan counties from 1869 to 1877 * Isaac Dabbs represented Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte County from 1875 to 1877 * McDowell Delaney represented Amelia County, Virginia, Amelia County from 1871 to 1873 * Amos A. Dodson represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1883 to 1884 * Shed Dungee represented Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland and Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham counties from 1879 to 1882 * Jesse Dungey represented King William County, Virginia, King William County from 1871 to 1873 * Isaac Edmundson represented Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County from 1869 to 1871 * Ballard T. Edwards represented Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield and Powhatan County, Virginia, Powhatan counties from 1869 to 1871 * Joseph P. Evans representing Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1871 to 1873 (also Senator) * William D. Evans (Virginia politician), William D. Evans represented Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County from 1877 to 1880 * William W. Evans (Virginia politician), William W. Evans represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1887 to 1888. * William Faulcon represented Prince George County, Virginia, Prince George and Surry County, Virginia, Surry counties from 1885 to 1887 * George Fayerman represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1869 to 1871 * James A. Fields represented Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and James City County, Virginia, James City counties from 1889 to 1890 * Alexander Q. Franklin represented Charles City County, Virginia, Charles City County from 1889 to 1890 * William Gilliam represented Prince George County, Virginia, Prince George County from 1871 to 1875 * James P. Goodwyn represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1874 to 1875 * Armistead Green represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1881 to 1884 * Robert G. Griffin (Virginia politician), Robert G. Griffin represented James City County, Virginia, James City and York County, Virginia, York counties from 1883 to 1884 * Nathaniel M. Griggs represented Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County from 1883 to 1884 (also Senator) * Ross Hamilton represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1869 to 1882, and from 1889 to 1890 * Alfred W. Harris represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1881 to 1888 * H. Clay Harris represented Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County from 1874 to 1875 * Henry C. Hill represented Amelia County, Virginia, Amelia County from 1874 to 1875 * Charles E. Hodges (Virginia politician born 1819), Charles E. Hodges representingNorfolk County, Virginia, Norfolk County from 1869 to 1871 * John Q. Hodges represented Princess Anne County, Virginia, Princess Anne County from 1869 to 1871 * Henry Johnson (Virginia politician), Henry Johnson represented Amelia County, Virginia, Amelia and Nottoway County, Virginia, Nottoway counties from 1889 to 1890 * Benjamin Jones (Virginia politician), Benjamin Jones represented Charles City County, Virginia, Charles City County from 1869 to 1871 * James R. Jones (Virginia politician), James R. Jones represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County from 1885 to 1887 (also Senator) * Peter K. Jones representing Greensville County, Virginia, Greensville County from 1869 to 1877 * Robert G. W. Jones represented Charles City County, Virginia, Charles City County from 1869 to 1871 * Rufus S. Jones represented Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and Warwick County, Virginia, Warwick counties from 1871 to 1875 * William H. Jordan (Virginia politician), William H. Jordan represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1885 to 1887 * Alexander G. Lee represented Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and Warwick County, Virginia, Warwick from 1877 to 1879 * Neverson Lewis represented Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield and Powhatan County, Virginia, Powhatan counties from 1879 to 1882 * James F. Lipscomb represented Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland County from 1869 to 1877 * William P. Lucas represented Louisa County, Virginia, Louisa County from 1874 to 1875 * John W. B. Matthews represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1871 to 1873 * J. B. Miller, Jr. represented Goochland County, Virginia, Goochland County from 1869 to 1871 * Peter G. Morgan (politician), Peter G. Morgan represented Petersburg County, Virginia, Petersburg County from 1869 to 1871 * Frank Moss (Virginia politician), Francis "Frank" Moss representing Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham County from 1874 to 1875 (also Senator) * Armistead S. Nickens represented Lancaster County, Virginia, Lancaster County from 1871 to 1875 * Frederick S. Norton represented James City County, Virginia, James City and Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsburg counties in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1871 * Robert Norton (Virginia politician), Robert Norton representing Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and York County, Virginia, York counties from 1869 to 1872 and from 1881 to 1882 * Alexander Owen (Virginia politician), Alexander Owen represented Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County from 1869 to 1871 * Littleton Owens represented Princess Anne County, Virginia, Princess Anne County from 1879 to 1882 * Richard G. L. Paige represented Norfolk County, Virginia, Norfolk County from 1871 to 1875 and from 1879 to 1882 * William H. Patterson represented Charles City County, Virginia, Charles City County from 1871 to 1873 * Caesar Perkins represented Buckingham County, Virginia, Buckingham County from 1869 to 1871 and from 1887 to 1888 * Fountain M. Perkins represented Louisa County, Virginia, Louisa County from 1869 to 1871 * John W. Poindexter represented Louisa County, Virginia, Louisa County from 1875 to 1877 * Joseph B. Pope represented Southampton County, Virginia, Southampton County from 1879 to 1880 * Guy Powell represented Brunswick County, Virginia, Brunswick County from 1881 to 1882 (also Senator) * William H. Ragsdale represented Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte County from 1869 to 1871 * John H. Robinson (Virginia politician, born 1837), John H. Robinson represented Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and James City County, Virginia, James City, and York County, Virginia, York counties from 1887 to 1888 * R. D. Ruffin represented Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Dinwiddie County from 1875 to 1876 * Archer Scott represented Amelia County, Virginia, Amelia and Nottoway County, Virginia, Nottoway counties from 1875 to 1877 and from 1879 to 1884 * George L. Seaton represented Alexandria County, Virginia, Alexandria County from 1869 to 1871 * Dabney Smith (Virginia politician), Dabney Smith represented Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte County from 1881 to 1882 * Henry D. Smith represented Greensville County, Virginia, Greensville County from 1879 to 1880 * Robert M. Smith (Virginia politician), Robert M. Smith represented Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City and Warwick County, Virginia, Warwick counties from 1875 to 1877 * John B. Syphax represented Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington County from 1874 to 1875 * Henry Turpin represented Goochland County, Virginia, Goochland County from 1871 to 1873 * John Watson (Virginia politician), John Watson represented Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County in 1869 * Maclin C. Wheeler represented Brunswick County, Virginia, Brunswick County from 1883 to 1884 * Robert H. Whittaker (politician), Robert H. Whittaker or Whitaker represented Brunswick County, Virginia, Brunswick County from 1875 to 1877 * Ellis Wilson (Virginia politician), Ellis Wilson represented Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Dinwiddie County from 1869 to 1871

Virginia Constitutional Convention

* Thomas Bayne (Sam Nixon), Thomas Bayne * John Wesley Cromwell, Clerk of the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1867), Washington D.C. government clerk

Other offices

* P. H. A. Braxton, constable in King William County in 1872, collector at the United States Custom House in Westmoreland County

Washington

Washington did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era. William Owen Bush was the first African American to serve in the Washington state legislature 1889–1891.

West Virginia

West Virginia did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era, Christopher Payne was the first African American to serve in the West Virginia state legislature in 1896.

Wyoming

Wyoming did not have any African American legislators during the Reconstruction era. William Jefferson Hardin was the first African American to serve in the Wyoming state legislature 1879 - 1883.

Washington, D.C.

* Solomon G. Brown, House of Delegates for Washington D.C. (1871-1874), employee at the Smithsonian * John Mercer Langston, appointed member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia * John H. Smythe, 1872, clerk in the U.S. Census Bureau, clerk in the Treasury department, 1878 ambassador to Liberia * William E. Matthews, clerk in the United States Postal Service in Washington D.C. in 1870, the first black person to receive an appointment in that departmentSimmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p246-251 * Josiah T. Settle, reading clerk of the Washington, D.C. House of Delegates (1872), clerk in the Board of Public Works, as an accountant in the Board of Audits, and as a trustee of the county schools for the district

References

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