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“All for Civil Rights”

African-American Congressmen, Judges & Lawmakers in South Carolina, Compiled by W. Lewis Burke

1868 Constitutional Convention Delegates

  • Alexander, Purvis
  • Becker, Martin F.
  • Bonum, John
  • Brockenton, Isaac P.
  • Burton, Barney
  • Cain, Edwin J.
  • Cain, Richard H.
  • Cardozo, Francis L.
  • Chestnut, John A.
  • Clinton, Frederick A.
  • Cooke, Wilson
  • Davies, Nelson
  • De Large, Robert Carlos
  • Dogan, Abram
  • Driffle, William A.
  • Edwards, Harvey
  • Elliott, Robert B.
  • Foster, Rice
  • Gray, William H.W.
  • Harris, David
  • Hayne, Charles D.
  • Hayne, Henry E.
  • Hayne, James N.
  • Henderson, James A.
  • Jacobs, Henry
  • Jervey, William R.
  • Johnson, Samuel
  • Johnston, William E.
  • Joiner, W. Nelson
  • Jones, Charles
  • Jones, Henry W.
  • Lang, Jordan
  • Langley, Langdon S.
  • Lee, George H.
  • Lee, Samuel J.
  • Lomax, Hutson J.
  • Mayer, Julius
  • McKinlay, William
  • McKinlay, Whitefield J.
  • Mead, John W.
  • Middleton, Abram
  • Nance, Lee A.
  • Nash, William B.
  • Nelson, William
  • Nuckles, Samuel
  • Rainey, Joseph H.
  • Randolph, Benjamin F.
  • Ransier, Alonzo J.
  • Rivers, Prince R.
  • Sasportas, Thaddeus K.
  • Saunders, Sancho
  • Shrewsbury, Henry L.
  • Smalls, Robert
  • Stubbs, Calvin
  • Swails, Stephen A.
  • Thomas, William M.
  • Thompson, Benjamin A.
  • Thompson, Samuel B.
  • Thompson, Augustus R.
  • Viney, William
  • Whipper, William James
  • White, John H.
  • Wilder, Charles M.
  • Williamson, Thomas M.
  • Wingo, Coy
  • Wright, Jonathan J.

1895 Constitutional Convention Delegates

  • Andrews, Robert B.
  • Chisolm, Caesar P.
  • Miller, Thomas E.
  • Reed, Isaiah
  • Smalls, Robert
  • Whipper, William James
  • Wigg, James