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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer. Pinchback was governor of Louisiana and the second lieutenant governor. A Republican, Pinchback served as acting governor of Louisiana for 35 days from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873, during which ten acts of Legislature became law. He was one of the most prominent office holders during and following the Reconstruction era during the Reconstruction Era.
Lot Myrick Morrill was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of Maine, as a United States senator, and as U.S. secretary of the treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant. An advocate for hard currency rather than paper money, Morrill was popularly received as treasury secretary by the American press and Wall Street. He was known for financial and political integrity, and was said to be focused on serving the public good rather than party interests. Morrill was President Grant's fourth and last Secretary of the Treasury.
Ossian Bingley Hart was the 10th Governor of Florida from 1873 to 1874, and the first governor of Florida who was born in the state.
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II was an American Presbyterian minister who served as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, and, along with U.S. Congressman Josiah Thomas Walls, was among the most powerful black officeholders in the state during Reconstruction. An African American who served during the Reconstruction era, he was the first black Florida Secretary of State, holding the office over a century prior to the state's second black Secretary of State, Jesse McCrary, who served for five months in 1979.
Charles Jones Jenkins was an American politician from Georgia. A Democrat, Jenkins served as Attorney General of Georgia from 1831 to 1834. He then went on to serve as Governor of Georgia from December 14, 1865 to January 13, 1868. He was removed from office and replaced by Thomas H. Ruger as military governor after Jenkins refused to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention. Jenkins remained a respected figure in Georgia, and despite not running for the office, he received two electoral votes in the 1872 United States presidential election, due to the premature death of candidate Horace Greeley.
Simon Barclay Conover was an American physician and politician who served as a delegate to Florida's 1868 Constitutional Convention, state treasurer, state legislator, and U.S. Senator from Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives including as Speaker. He was a Republican.
Alonzo Garcelon was the 36th governor of Maine, and a surgeon general of Maine during the American Civil 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.
William James Purman was a U.S. Representative from Florida. A Republican, he also served in the Florida Senate and in the Florida House of Representatives.
Stephen Decatur Lindsey was an American attorney and politician from Maine. A Republican, he served terms in the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate. In 1876, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. He was reelected in 1878 and served from 1877 to 1883.
Benjamin White Norris was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, U.S.A
Sidney Perham was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement.
Llewellyn Powers was a U.S. Representative from Maine and the 44th Governor of Maine.
Harris Merrill Plaisted was an attorney, politician, and Union Army officer from Maine. As colonel, he commanded the 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as Maine Attorney General, a U.S. Congressman, and the 38th Governor of Maine.
Virgil Delphini Parris was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and cousin of Albion Parris.
Frederick Robie was an American physician and politician who most notably served as the 39th Governor of Maine.
William Archer Cocke was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th Florida Attorney General. Cocke was placed into the national spotlight due to his role in the controversy following the 1876 presidential election.
Josiah Manchester Haynes was an American businessperson, lawyer, and politician from Augusta, Maine. Haynes was elected to the Maine Legislature five times and served as Senate President in 1879 and Speaker of the House in 1882—83. In business, he was heavily invested in shipbuilding, railroads, timber, and the commercial ice production.
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.
William K. Cessna was a Union Army officer, state legislator, and judge in the United States. He served as an officer with a colored regiment from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. He served in Florida during the Civil War and settled there afterwards. He employed Josiah T. Walls in a lumber business. A Republican, he lived in Gainesville and served in the Florida House of Representatives for Alachua County in 1871 and 1872.
