William T. Elfe (1843–1897) was an American politician and judge who served in the

South Carolina House of Representatives The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections. Unlike many legislatures, seati ...

. He was Black and a "free-born Democrat". He signed the 1868

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. He represented Charleston. February 10, 1880 he resigned. The

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has in their archives the "Simons, Siegling & Cappelmann records, 1857–1928" (box 13) which contains papers related to Elfe.

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{{Reflist 1843 births 1897 deaths Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina African-American state legislators in South Carolina 19th-century American legislators