Biography: Elliott, Robert Brown

Robert B. Elliott

Biography: Elliott, Robert Brown

5/17/2016

Biography

South Carolina Encyclopedia features a medium length biography on Robert Brown Elliott, a British Black man who moved to South Carolina and later became a Congressman (R-SC). Written by Millicent Allison Brown, a professor of history at Claflin University, and published on May 17, 2016, this biography includes information regarding conflicting accounts of Elliott's birth and remarks about his formal education, as well as summarization of his varied career in law and politics in South Carolina, his historical election into the United States House of Representatives, and his return to state politics after the Democratic Party regained control of the South in 1876.

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