Anselm Joseph McLaurin was the 34th Governor of Mississippi,serving from 1896 to 1900.
John Calloway Walton was an American politician and the 5th Governor of Oklahoma,serving the shortest tenure. He was impeached and removed from office shortly into his first term. A populist member of the Democratic Party,Walton previously served as the 18th Mayor of Oklahoma City between 1919 and 1923.
William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was an American educator,lawyer,and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation. Although not American Indian,he was appointed by Johnston as the Chickasaw delegate to the 1905 Convention for the proposed State of Sequoyah. Later he was elected as a delegate to the 1906 constitutional convention for the proposed state of Oklahoma;it was admitted in 1907.
David Bennett Hill was an American politician from New York who was the 29th governor of New York from 1885 to 1891 and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1892 to 1897.
James Hamilton Lewis was an American attorney and politician. Sometimes referred to as J. Ham Lewis or Ham Lewis,he represented Washington in the United States House of Representatives,and Illinois in the United States Senate. He was the first to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate.
John Curtis Kyle was an American attorney and Democratic politician from Mississippi during the late 19th century. He was most notable for his service as mayor of Sardis,Mississippi (1879-1881),a member of the Mississippi State Senate (1881-1885),member of the Mississippi Railroad Commission (1886-1890) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1891-1897).
James Aloysius O'Gorman was an American attorney,judge,and politician from New York. A Democrat,he is most notable for his service as a United States Senator from March 31,1911,to March 3,1917.
Edward Murphy Jr. was a businessman and politician from Troy,New York. A Democrat,he served as mayor of Troy,New York (1875–1883),chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee (1888–1894),and a United States senator from New York (1893–1899).
Bourbon Democrat was a term used in the United States in the later 19th century and early 20th century (1872–1904) to refer to members of the Democratic Party who were ideologically aligned with fiscal conservatism or classical liberalism,especially those who supported presidential candidates Charles O'Conor in 1872,Samuel J. Tilden in 1876,President Grover Cleveland in 1884,1888,and 1892 and Alton B. Parker 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.
The 1894–95 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1894 and 1895,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 2.
The 1896–97 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1896 and 1897,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 3.
The 1898–99 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1898 and 1899,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 1.
The 1890–91 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1890 and 1891,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 3.
P. Kay Floyd is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented the 46th district in the Oklahoma Senate since 2014. She has served as the Minority Leader of the Oklahoma Senate since succeeding John Sparks in 2018. She previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing the 88th district between 2012 and 2014.
John J. Sumpter was a lawyer and state legislator in Arkansas,military colonel,hotel proprietor,and lived in Hot Springs,Arkansas,for nearly all of his life. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and the Arkansas Senate.
William Jasper East was a longtime Democratic Mississippi state legislator from Tate County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Alva Marvin Cummins was an American lawyer. Cummins was admitted to the bar in 1891. From there,he went on to serve in leadership positions at multiple bar associations. Cummins also had a political career marked by several electoral defeats. Cummins was nominated by the Democratic party for positions such as congressman,governor,and state attorney general.
James Thomas Harrison was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1900 to 1904.
