Biography: Ransier, Alonzo Jacob
Subject
Alonzo Jacob Ransier
Title
Biography: Ransier, Alonzo Jacob
Date
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Type
Biography
Description
The United States House of Representatives features a medium length biography on the life of Alonzo Jacob Ransier (b. 1834 - d. 1882) - an African American Congressman and South Carolina's first African American lieutenant governor. Themes include: his origins and early life in Charleston South Carolina, his political life in South Carolina's executive government, his fight for integrated education and for the Civil Rights Bill of 1874, his reputation as an "honest" politician in a corrupt political sphere and his death at age 48.
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History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representative
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“Biography: Ransier, Alonzo Jacob,” Project Reconstruction, accessed December 7, 2023, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/940.