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Fritzhugh Brundage proposed in 2017 that Reconstruction ended in 1890, when Republicans failed to pass the Lodge Bill to secure voting rights for Black Americans in the South. [13] Heather Cox Richardson argued that same year for a periodization from 1865 until 1920, when the election of Warren G. Harding to the presidency marked the end of a ...
John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives.
Moderate Republicans were less enthusiastic than Radical Republicans about Black suffrage, even though they otherwise embraced civil equality and the expansion of federal authority during the American Civil War. [2] They were also skeptical of the lenient, conciliatory Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (/ ˈ r ʌ ð ər f ər d / ⓘ; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881.A staunch abolitionist from Ohio, he was also a brevet major general for the Union army during the American Civil War.
Howard, Victor B. Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860–1870 (University Press of Kentucky, 2014) online; Lyons, Philip B. Statesmanship and Reconstruction: Moderate versus Radical Republicans on Restoring the Union after the Civil War (Lexington Books, 2014). McFeely, William S. (1981). Grant: A Biography. ISBN 978-0393013726.
To win the position, he first defeated state Representative Ray Hutchison in the Republican primary by a lopsided vote of 115,345 to 38,268. He won the general election held on November 7, 1978, by narrowly defeating Democratic former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Luke Hill , who had also served six years as state attorney general .
George Thompson Ruby (July 1, 1841 – October 31, 1882) [1] was an African-American Republican politician in Reconstruction-era Texas.Born in New York to African-American businessman Reuben Ruby and Rachel Humphey and raised in Portland, Maine, [2] he worked in Boston and Haiti before starting teaching in New Orleans before the end of the American Civil War.
Edward William Brooke III was born on October 26, 1919, in Washington, D.C., to a middle-class black family. [3] His father Edward William Brooke Jr. was a lawyer and graduate of Howard University who worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and his mother was Helen (née Seldon) Brooke. [4]