Silas Comfort Swallow was a United States Methodist preacher and prohibitionist politician who was a lifelong opponent of slavery. He was the Prohibitionist presidential nominee in 1904.
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.
Mottrom Dulany Ball was an American lawyer,newspaper publisher,Confederate Army officer and collector of customs for the United States Department of the Treasury. From March 27,1878,to June 13,1879,he was the highest-ranking federal official in the Department of Alaska,making him the de facto governor of the territory.
The Municipality of Alexandria was a local government area of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. Originally part of the municipalities of Redfern from 1859 and Waterloo from 1860,the Borough of Alexandria was proclaimed on 27 August 1868. With an area of 4.2 square kilometres,it included the modern suburbs of Alexandria,Beaconsfield and parts of Eveleigh,St Peters and Erskineville. After a minor boundary change with the Municipality of Erskineville in 1908,the council was amalgamated with the City of Sydney,along with most of its neighbours,with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948,although the former council area was later transferred in 1968–1982 and 1989–2004 to the South Sydney councils.
Charles Edward Stuart was a Virginia politician. He represented Alexandria City and County in the Virginia House of Delegates,and served as that body's Speaker from 1883 until 1887.
Alexander W. Monroe was a prominent American lawyer,politician,and military officer in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. Monroe served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and West Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County. He was the Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates during the 1875–1877 legislative session. Monroe also represented Hampshire County in the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872.
The Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser,often referred to simply as the Virginia Argus,was a weekly newspaper published between July 1850 and August 1861 in Romney,Virginia. The paper's circulation of 800 copies was the second-highest in Hampshire County,after the South Branch Intelligencer's. The Virginia Argus ceased publication following its closure by the Union Army during the American Civil War,after which it was not revived.
William Rice (1821–1897) was a Methodist Episcopal minister,author,and from 1861 to his death in 1897,the President and Executive Director of the Springfield City Library Association. He was an important public figure in nineteenth-century Springfield,Massachusetts.
Central Alabama Institute was a private school for African American in Alabama,United States. The school was the city of Huntsville's first school for the African American community during the Reconstruction era. It was founded in 1865 in Huntsville,Alabama,and moved in 1904 to Mason City,near Birmingham,Alabama. The school also went by the names Rust Institute,Rust Normal Institute,Rust Biblical and Normal Institute,Central Alabama Academy,Central Alabama Institute and College,and Central Alabama College.
Charles Bendheim was an American politician and lawyer from Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1891 to 1894.
St. John's Academy was a military academy for boys in Alexandria,Virginia established by Jesuits.
Eppa Hunton III,known as Eppa Hunton Jr.,was an American lawyer,railroad executive,and politician. The son of Confederate general Eppa Hunton,he experienced a turbulent childhood with the American Civil War and Reconstruction as its backdrop. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law,he practiced law with his father in Warrenton,Virginia,for a number of years before moving south to Richmond in 1901 to help found the law firm Munford,Hunton,Williams &Anderson.
George Colton was an American politician,printer and newspaperman. He served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates,representing Baltimore's 2nd district,from 1868 to 1872 and 1888 to 1892. Colton served as president of the Baltimore Board of Police Commissioners. He owned and operated both the Maryland Republican in the 1860s and the Baltimore Gazette in the 1880s.
Edgar Snowden Sr. was an American newspaperman and politician from Virginia who served as mayor of Alexandria,D.C. and represented Alexandria in the Virginia House of Delegates.
George William McComas was an American politician from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,representing Harford County,from 1902 to 1905.
Grenville Gaines was an American politician,lawyer and banker from Virginia. He served as mayor of Warrenton in the 1890s.
Lawrence W. Corbett was an American politician from Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1887 to 1888.
William H. Fowle was an American politician from Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Alexandria City and Alexandria from 1875 to 1876.
The Fauquier Institute or Fauquier Female Institute was a small private school in Warrenton,Fauquier County,Virginia. It operated from 1860 through the late 1920s. It was a boarding school and a day school,teaching primary,preparatory,and collegiate female students. It advertised "elegant accommodations,excellent advantages,reliable terms."
