Rapier, James T., 1839-1883

LC control no.	no2003118289
Personal name heading	Rapier, James T., 1839-1883 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1839
Death date	18830531
Place of birth	Lauderdale County, Ala.
Place of death	Montgomery, Ala.
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House
Profession or occupation	African American legislators
Found in	Black power in old Alabama, c1968: t.p. (James T. Rapier, Afro-American Congressman from Alabama) p. 2 (born in Florence, Ala., 1839) p. 36 (died May 1883) Biog. Dir. of the U.S. Congress website, viewed May 2, 2012 (RAPIER, James Thomas, a Representative from Alabama; born a free black in Florence, Lauderdale County, Ala., Nov. 13, 1837; educated by private tutors in Alabama and studied in Canada; studied law and was admitted to the bar; taught school; returned to the South and traveled as a correspondent for a northern newspaper; became a cotton planter in Alabama in 1865; appointed a notary public by the Governor of Alabama in 1866; member of the first Republican convention held in Alabama and was one of the committee that framed the platform; member of the State constitutional convention at Montgomery in 1867; unsuccessful candidate for secretary of state in 1870; appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1871; appointed State commissioner to the Vienna Exposition by the Governor of Alabama in 1873; commissioner on the part of the U.S. to the World's Fair in Paris; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (Mar. 4, 1873-Mar. 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; appointed collector of internal revenue for the second district of Alabama on Aug. 8, 1878, and served until his death in Montgomery, Ala., May 31, 1883; interment in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.)