Lithograph. ca. 1870.

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Lithograph. ca. 1870.

1 item, lithograph of Louisiana's reconstructionist lieutenant-governor, Oscar James Dunn, published by Currier and Ives. Oscar James Dunn was most likely born the child of a free black woman, and was therefore free born. During the Civil War Dunn enlisted in the first regiment of Negro troops raised in Louisiana, and attained a captaincy (the highest position then open to blacks). During the War years he became an active member with the newly forming Republican party in Louisiana. He later went on to be made the first Afro-American lieutenant-governor in the United States.

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Dunn, Oscar James, c. 1826-1871

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Oscar James Dunn (1826 – November 22, 1871) was one of three African Americans who served as a Republican Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction. In 1868, Dunn became the first elected black lieutenant governor of a U.S. state. He ran on the ticket headed by Henry Clay Warmoth, formerly of Illinois. After Dunn died in office, then-state Senator P. B. S. Pinchback, another black Republican, became lieutenant governor and thereafter governor for a 34-day interim period. ...