href="#i000002690000.jpg"/>John R. Lynch elected speaker of the House.
H. R. Revels elected to United State Senate for the unexpired term.
Josiah T. Settle was a member of the House from Panola in 1883-84.
G. W. Gayles was a member of the House 1873-77 and a member of the Senate 1877 to some time after 1886. He was the last Negro to be a member of the Mississippi Senate. For sketch of his career see Simmons' Men of Mark, 379-381.
Garner, Reconstruction in Mississippi, page 294, gives Negro members of the Mississippi Legislature for 1873 as Senate, 9; House, 55. On page 402, for 1876, Senate, 5; House, 16. Total membership, Senate, 37. Total membership, House, 116.
Dates of the Conventions January 14-March 17, 1868, and September 6-October 11, 1875. Total members of each Convention 120. Negro members, 13 in Convention of 1868, and 5 in Convention of 1875.
Abbeville—John A. Hunter, B. Milford, white; H. J. Lomax, W. N. Joiner, Thomas Williamson, colored.
Anderson—William Perry, N. J. Newall, white; Samuel Johnson, colored.
Berkeley—M. F. Becker, D. H. Chamberlain, Timothy Hurley, Joseph H. Jenks, A. C. Richmond, white; William Jervey, Benjamin Byas, W. H. W. Gray, George Lee, colored.
Beaufort—J. D. Bell, R. G. Holmes, white; F. E. Wilder, L. S. Langley, W. J. Whipper, Robert Smalls, J. J. Wright, colored.
Barnwell—C. P. Leslie, Niles G. Parker, white; James N. Hayne, A. Middleton, C. D. Hayne, Julius Mayer, colored.
Charleston—A. G. Mackey, C. C. Bowen, Gilbert Pillsbury, white; F. L. Cardozo, William McKinlay, R. H. Cain, R. C. DeLarge, A. J. Ransier, colored.
Chester—Purvis Alexander, Barney Burton, Sancho Sanders, colored.
Chesterfield—R. J. Donaldson, white; H. L. Shrewsbury, colored.
Clarendon—Elias E. Dickson, white; William Nelson, colored.
Colleton—J. S. Craig, white; William M. Thomas, William Driffle, W. M. Vinery, colored.
Darlington—B. F. Whittemore, white; Isaac Brockenton, Jordan Lang, Richard Humbird, colored.
Edgefield—Frank Arnim, white; R. B. Elliott, Prince R. Rivers, John Bonum, David Harris, John Wooley, colored.
Fairfield—James M. Rutland, white; H. D. Edwards, Henry Jacob, colored.
Georgetown—Henry W. Webb, white; F. F. Miller, Joseph H. Rainey, colored.
Greenville—James M. Allen, J. M. Runion, white; Wilson Cook, W. B. Johnson, colored.
Horry—Henry Jones, A. R. Thompson, colored.
Kershaw—J. K. Jillson, S. G. W. Dill, white; John A. Chestnut, colored.
Lancaster—Albert Clinton, Charles Jones, colored.
Lexington—Lemanuel Boozer, Simeon Corley, white.
Laurens—Joseph Crews, Y. J. P. Owens, white; Harry McDaniels, Nelson Davis, colored.
Marion—W. S. Collins, white; J. W. Johnson, H. E. Hayne, B. A. Thompson, colored.
Marlboro—Calvin Stubbs, George Jackson, colored.
Newberry—B. O. Duncan, white; James Henderson, Lee Nance, colored.
Orangeburg—E. W. M. Mackey, white; E. J. Cain, W. J. McKinlay, T. K. Sasportas, B. F. Randolph, colored.
Pickens—M. Mauldin, Alexander Bryce, L. B. Johnson, white.
Richland—Thomas J. Robertson, white; W. B. Nash, S. B. Thompson, C. M. Wilder, colored.
Spartanburg—J. P. F. Camp, J. S. Gentry, white; Rice Foster, Coy Wingo, colored.
Sumter—T. J. Coghlan, F. J. Moses, Jr., white; W. E. Johnson, Samuel Lee, colored.
Union—J. H. Goss, white; Abram Dogan, Samuel Nuckles, colored.
Williamsburg—William Darrington, white; C. M. Olsen, S. A. Swails, colored.
York—J. L. Neagle, William E. Rose, white; J. W. Mead, J. H. White, colored.
Three of the delegates elected failed to attend,—F. A. Sawyer, white, Charleston; John K. Terry, white, Colleton; George D. Medis, colored, Edgefield.
Of the 124 delegates elected, forty-eight were white and seventy-six colored. The white men classed as Republicans were about equally divided as natives or newcomers—in the vernacular of the times, "scalawags" or "carpetbaggers."
The following table gives the previous residence of the delegates:
19 Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 106-107, 394-396.
Additional names by Bishop George W. Clinton.
See Reynold's Reconstruction, p. 505.
The number of white senators elected was twenty-one, and of colored, ten.
Abbeville—George Dusenberry, T. B. Milford, James Martin, white; R. M. Valentine, W. J. Lomax, colored.
*Anderson—John B. Moore, B. Frank Sloan, John Wilson, all white.
Barnwell—B. F. Berry,
Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915.
Reynolds,
In 1895 South Carolina again revised her constitution. In the convention held for this purpose there were found Negro delegates, viz.: Thomas E. Miller, L. R. Reed, Robert Smalls, W. J. Whipper and James Wigg, all from Beaufort County. Smalls and Whipper had been delegates in the 1868 convention. (Reported by H. H. Wallace.)
Furnished by Mr. H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
[21] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's
Reynolds,
