Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015. Isaac Bassett's Papers, ca. 1880 - ca. 1895. [Box] 3 - Folder C
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Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915
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Nash, Charles Edmund, 1844-1913
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Hyman, John Adams, 1840-1891
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Rapier, James Thomas, 1837-1883
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James Thomas Rapier (November 13, 1837 – May 31, 1883) was a politician from Alabama during the Reconstruction Era. He served as a United States Representative from Alabama, for one term from 1873 until 1875. Born free in Alabama, he received his higher education and law degree in Scotland and Canada before being admitted to the bar in Tennessee. Rapier was a nationally prominent figure in the Republican Party as one of seven blacks serving in the 43rd Congress. He worked in 1874 for passage ...
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Lynch, John Roy, 1847-1939
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Cain, Richard Harvey, 1825-1887
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Reverend Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879. After the Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. He also was one of the founders of Lincolnville, South Carolina. Cain was born to a black father and a Cherokee mother in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now in West Virginia....
Walls, Josiah Thomas, 1842-1905
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Josiah Thomas Walls (December 30, 1842 – May 15, 1905) was a United States congressman who served three terms in the U.S. Congress between 1871 and 1876. He was one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida. He also served four terms in the Florida Senate. Josiah Walls was born into slavery in 1842 near Winchester, Virginia. During the American Civil War, he was forced t...
Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842-1884
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Robert Brown Elliott (August 11, 1842 – August 9, 1884) was an African-American member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1871 to 1874. He was born in 1842 in Liverpool, England. He attended High Holborn Academy in London, England and then studied law, graduating from Eton College in 1859. From there he joined the British Royal Navy. Elliott decided to settle in South Carolina in 1867. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1868 and began pra...
