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Beyond the African-American influence on the 1868 Constitution, there were also 180 black politicians in public office throughout South Carolina. [2] A couple influential scalawags from South Carolina during reconstruction were Franklin J. Moses Jr. and Thomas J Coghlan. South Carolina was a prominent area for the Ku Klux Klan during ...
Thomas E. Miller – South Carolina September 24, 1890 – March 3, 1891 (also South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House, and South Carolina Constitutional Convention) [2] George W. Murray – South Carolina 1893–1897 [2] Charles E. Nash – Louisiana 1875 –1877 [2] James E. O'Hara – North Carolina 1883–1887 (also North Carolina House ...
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of South Carolina.For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from South Carolina.
first African-American men elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives since Reconstruction: Herbert Fielding, James Felder, and I. S. Levy Johnson (1970) first African-American woman elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives: Juanita Goggins (1975)
He served South Carolina's 1st congressional district beginning in 1870 during the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War. The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement.
All of Mississippi's African American statewide officials and Senators took office during Reconstruction, as of 2022. Nevada 1 1 New Jersey 8 8 New Mexico 1 1 New York 9 9 North Carolina 3 3 Ohio 3 3 Oklahoma 1 1 Oregon 1 1 Pennsylvania 1 1 South Carolina 5 1 1 7 Francis Lewis Cardozo held office as Secretary of State and State Treasurer. Texas 2 2
James P. Mays was Commissioner of Elections in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, and in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era in 1868. [1] [2] He was also appointed Coroner in 1873. [1] [3]
Franklin Israel Moses Jr. (January 1, 1838 – December 11, 1906) was a South Carolina lawyer and editor who became active as a Republican politician in the state during the Reconstruction Era. He was elected to the legislature in 1868 and as governor in 1872, serving into 1874.