Wade Hampton III was the scion of one of the richest families in the ante-bellum South,owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South Carolina and Mississippi,as well as thousands of enslaved workers. He became a senior general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He also had a career as a leading Democratic politician in state and national affairs.
Elisha Benjamin Andrews was an American economist,soldier,and educator.
Matthew Calbraith Butler was a Confederate soldier,an American military commander,attorney and politician,and slaveholder from South Carolina. He served as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War,reconstruction era three-term United States Senator,and a major general in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
Wade Hampton II was a United States Army officer,planter and politician who served in the War of 1812. He was a member of the Hampton family,whose influence was strong in South Carolina politics and social circles for nearly 100 years.
Captain Abram Epperson Wood was an officer in the United States Army between 1872 and 1894,and the first acting Military Superintendent of Yosemite National Park.
William Tatum Wofford was an American military officer who saw action in the Mexican–American War and later served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Samuel Everett Pingree was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. A Republican,he served as lieutenant governor from 1882 to 1884 and governor from 1884 to 1886. Pingree was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the 1862 Battle at Lee's Mills.
James Ronald Chalmers was an American politician and senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry and cavalry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Alexander Cheves Haskell was a Colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and a Democratic politician in Reconstruction era South Carolina.
John Alfred Pickler was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Samuel Dibble was a lawyer,educator and Confederate Civil War veteran who served several terms as U.S. Representative from South Carolina during the 1880s.
William Thompson Martin was an American lawyer and politician who became a Confederate States Army major general during the American Civil War. He later served in the Mississippi state senate,and was a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions. Martin was the president of the Natchez,Jackson,and Columbus Railroad,of which he oversaw the construction in 1884.
John Shand was a New Zealand university professor,educationalist and administrator. He was one of the three foundation professors at the University of Otago.
Wilson Gaines Richardson was an American Classicist,minister,and veteran of the Civil War. Richardson was the son of Thomas Gaines and Sarah Richardson and the grandson of Richard and Sarah Richardson and of Captain John and Elizabeth Perry of Woodford county,Kentucky.
William Ephraim Mikell was an American legal scholar,lawyer and dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
John Snyders Kenyon was an American politician and Medal of Honor recipient from New York.
Hubert Anthony Shands (1872-1955) was a professor and author in Mississippi. His published works include a book on peculiarities of speech in Mississippi,a collection of short stories,and a novel dealing with themes including religion,morality,and race relations are among his publishings.
Joel Milton Acker was an American lawyer,planation owner,politician,and jurist. He represented Monroe County in the Mississippi State Senate in 1846 and from 1854 to 1856. He also represented the county in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1840 to 1844 and from 1865 to 1866.
