Allen Granberry Thurman,sometimes erroneously spelled Allan Granberry Thurman,was an American politician who served as a United States representative,Ohio Supreme Court justice,and United States senator. A Democrat,he unsuccessfully ran for vice president of the United States in 1888 as the running mate of President Grover Cleveland.
James Lowry Robinson was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of North Carolina;he served as the fourth lieutenant governor of the state for four years under Governor Thomas J. Jarvis and as acting Governor of North Carolina for one month in 1883. Earlier in his political career he served in the North Carolina House of Representatives,including as Speaker,and then the North Carolina Senate.
Benjamin Harris Brewster was an attorney and politician from New Jersey,who served as United States Attorney General from 1881 to 1885.
The Mississippi State Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate,along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives,convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson.
The 48th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from March 4,1883,to March 4,1885,during the last two years of Chester A. Arthur's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority,and the House had a Democratic majority.
William Amos Poynter was a Nebraska politician and the tenth Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901,running under a fusion ticket between the Populist Party and the Democratic Party. He had previously also been elected to the former Nebraska State House of Representatives in 1885 and the State Senate in 1891.
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 following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Colorado:
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Nebraska:
David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention,engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
Milton W. Mathews was an American attorney,publisher,and politician. Born and raised in Illinois,he practiced law in Champaign County before he was elected state's attorney. Mathews was also an important figure in the Modern Woodmen of America,serving as their chairman of the board of directors,and owned the Champaign County Herald. He was elected to the first of two terms in the Illinois Senate in 1888. During the second term he was named pro tempore President of the Illinois Senate,though he died before the term was complete.
William Henry Sims was a lawyer,Confederate officer,and Democratic politician from Mississippi. He was the state's lieutenant governor from 1878 to 1882.
William Gwin Kiger was an American physician and Democratic politician. He represented the 12th District in the Mississippi State Senate from 1892 to 1904 and from 1920 to 1932,and served as the Senate's President Pro Tempore in 1902.
Robert Aaron Dean was an American politician and farmer. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature,and was the President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi State Senate from 1890 to 1896. He represented Lafayette County.
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. He was also the President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi State Senate from 1896 to 1900.
The 1896–1900 Mississippi Legislature met in three sessions between 1896 and 1900.
The 1892–1896 Mississippi Legislature was a legislative term in the United States composed of the Mississippi State Senate and the Mississippi House of Representatives that met in two sessions in 1892 and 1894.
John Robert Dinsmore Sr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Macon,Mississippi. He was the President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate in 1900 and also served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1892 to 1900.
Edward Harris Moore was an American Democratic politician and lawyer. He represented Bolivar County in the Mississippi State Senate from 1894 to 1908,and was its President Pro Tempore from 1904 to 1908.
John Lawrence Hebron Jr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He represented Washington County in the Mississippi State Senate from 1904 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1936 and was its President Pro Tempore from 1908 to 1912.
