Related Research Articles
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States. During this period, three amendments were added to the United States Constitution to grant citizenship and equal civil rights to the newly freed slaves. To circumvent these legal achievements, the former Confederate states imposed poll taxes and literacy tests and engaged in terrorism to intimidate and control black people and to discourage or prevent them from voting.
LaSalle Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 14,791. The parish seat is Jena. The parish was created in 1910 from the western section of Catahoula Parish.
The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62–153 Black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Three White men also died during the confrontation.
David Conner Treen Sr. was an American politician and attorney from Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, Treen served as U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1973 to 1980 and the 51st governor of Louisiana from 1980 to 1984. Treen was the first Republican elected to either office since Reconstruction.
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.
Vance Gabriel Plauché was an American attorney and politician from Louisiana. A Democrat, he served for a single term in the 77th Congress, from 1941 to 1943.
Henry St. Clair was an American politician. He represented Macon County, Alabama in 1872. He lived in Tuskegee. He testified about the political climate, canvassing, and acts of intimidation against African Americans who overwhelmingly supported the Republican Party.
James Henri Burch, often written as J. Henri Burch, was an African American state legislator in Louisiana during Reconstruction, the years after the Civil War. He represented East Baton Rouge Parish in both the state's House of Representatives and Senate and was an important Black political leader in the period.
Henderson Williams was a state legislator in Louisiana who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Madison Parish. He was first elected in 1868, and again to serve in the 1870-1872 session. Henderson was one of the "colored" legislators who appealed to U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant in a January 9, 1872 letter to intervene in a dispute with fellow Republican governor Henry C. Warmoth.
Joseph B. Lott was an American state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Harry Lott also represented the Parish.
James S. Matthews was a state legislator in the state of Louisiana. Matthews chaired the House Committee on Public Lands. He also chaired a committee investigating "revolutionary" activity in the House in January 1875 following the November 4, 1874 election.
Charles Winthrop Lowell was a lawyer, commanding officer of a "colored" unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War, state legislator and postmaster in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nicholas Burton was an American A.M.E. Church minister, sheriff, and politician in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1877 and 1878.
Daniel H. Reese was an American publisher and political leader in Louisiana. He was a delegate at the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1868. He edited the Lafourche Republican in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
George Washington was an American cotton planter and state legislator in the U.S. state of Louisiana. He represented Concordia Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1870 to 1874 and from 1877 to 1879. He also served on the parish's school board in 1870. He served on the House Committee on Public Lands and Levees chaired by P. Jones Yorke.
Amos Drane was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention representing Madison County, Alabama. He was one of 16 African American delegates at the constitutional convemtion.
George Young Kelso was an American politician. He was delegate at Louisiana’s 1868 constitutional convention and state senator in Louisiana from 1868 to 1876. He was a “colored”, “radical” Republican.
Louis A. Snaer was a state legislator in Louisiana. He served as an officer in the Louisiana Native Guard. He was Creole.
Jules A. Masicot was a state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana State Senate and at the state's 1868 constitutional convention.
References
- ↑ "Actes Passés À la Session de la Législature de L'état de la Louisiane". W. Van Benthuysen & P. Besancon, Jr., State Printers. April 18, 1871 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana Index Including Thirteen Parishes
- ↑ Grant), United States President (1869-1877 (April 18, 1873). "Condition of Affairs in Louisiana: Message from the President of the United States, in Answer to a Resolution of the House, of December 16 Last, Relative to the Condition of Affairs in Louisiana" – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ House, United States Congress (April 18, 1872). "House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session" – via Google Books.
- ↑ "United States Congressional Serial Set". 1877.
- ↑ Buel, James William (April 18, 1883). "Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities: Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans". Historical Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  | This article about a Louisiana politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |