Related Research Articles
The North Carolina General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the state government of North Carolina. The legislature consists of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The General Assembly meets in the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Curtis Hooks Brogden was an American farmer, attorney and politician who served as the 42nd governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1874 to 1877 during the Reconstruction era. He succeeded to the position after the death of Governor Tod R. Caldwell, after having been elected as the 2nd lieutenant governor of the state on the Republican ticket in 1872.
Samuel Field Phillips was a civil rights pioneer, lawyer, politician who served as the second Solicitor General of the United States (from 1872 to 1885). He then took part in the landmark civil rights case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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.
Edmund William McGregor Mackey was a lawyer, state representative, and United States Representative from South Carolina. He was a leader in the Republican Party.
At the end of the American Civil War, the devastation and disruption in the state of Georgia were dramatic. Wartime damage, the inability to maintain a labor force without slavery, and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production. The state's chief cash crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865, while harvests of corn and wheat were also meager. The state government subsidized construction of numerous new railroad lines. White farmers turned to cotton as a cash crop, often using commercial fertilizers to make up for the poor soils they owned. The coastal rice plantations never recovered from the war.
James Henry Harris was an American civil rights advocate, upholsterer, and politician. Born into slavery, he was freed as a young adult and worked as a carpenter's apprentice and worker before he went to Oberlin College in Ohio. For a time, he lived in Chatham, Ontario, where he was a member of the Chatham Vigilance Committee that aimed to prevent blacks being transported out of Canada and sold as slaves in the United States.
The North Carolina General Assembly of 1868–1869 met in Raleigh from November 16, 1868, to April 12, 1869, with a special session from July 1, 1868, to August 24, 1868. This was the first assembly to meet after the approval of the new Constitution of North Carolina in 1868. As prescribed in this constitution, the assembly consisted of the 120 members in the North Carolina House of Representatives and 43 senators in the North Carolina Senate elected by the voters on August 6, 1868. This assembly was in control of the Republican Party and was dominated by reconstruction era politics.
Parker David Robbins was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War, among the first Black representatives to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1868–1869, and inventor from Bertie County, North Carolina.
Joseph A. Greene was a state senator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era, representing Orangeburg County in the 48th and 49th South Carolina General Assemblies from 1868 till 1871.
Henry W. Webb was a political leader in Reconstruction era South Carolina. He was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 and elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives the same year.
Samuel J. Keith was a state representative in South Carolina. He was a carpenter. He served in the Confederate Army. He was a Republican and served in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1870 to 1877. He represented Darlington County, South Carolina. In 1878 he became a Democrat.
Hiram E. Stilley was a lawyer, public official, and mercantilist who served as a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Beaufort County, North Carolina in the North Carolina House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate.
W. T. J. Hayes, sometimes documented as H. T. J. Hayes, was a public official and state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 for Halifax County, North Carolina. He was a signatory of North Carolina's 1868 Constitution. He was a Republican.
Cuffee Mayo, sometimes spelled Cuffie Mayo, (1803–1896) was a minister, laborer, and politician in North Carolina. He was a Republican.
Richard Tucker was a carpenter, undertaker, and state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Craven County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870 and in the North Carolina Senate in 1874 during the Reconstruction era.
Henry Eppes was a seven-term Republican senator in the North Carolina General Assembly between 1868 and 1900. He was one of about 111 African Americans to serve in North Carolina's state legislature between 1868 and 1900 and one of the few who served during and after reconstruction. Because of Jim Crow Laws, no African American followed Eppes in the North Carolina legislature until 1968 when civil rights were restored. Eppes also served as a delegate for Halifax County to North Carolina's 1868 Constitutional Convention.
Isham Sweat was a state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives representing Cumberland County.
Richard Falkner was an American state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives for two terms from 1868 to 1871.
References
- ↑ "North Carolina State House of Representatives - 1868-1869". www.carolana.com.
- ↑ "North Carolina State House of Representatives - 1870-1872". www.carolana.com.
- ↑ "North Carolina Manual". 1913.
- ↑ Carolina, North (1869). "Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina Passed by the General Assembly".
- ↑ "Freedmen's Convention (1866 : Raleigh, N.C.). Minutes of the Freedmen's Convention, Held in the City of Raleigh on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 1866". docsouth.unc.edu.