| LC control no. | no2010024227 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901 |
| Variant(s) | Long, J. F., 1836-1901 |
| Biography/History note | Jefferson Franklin Long was a slave. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18360303 |
| Death date | 19010204 |
| Place of birth | Crawford County (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Macon (Ga.) |
| Affiliation | Georgia Equal Rights and Educational Association United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Union Brotherhood Lodge (Organization) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Legislators |
| Found in | New Ga. encyc., via WWW, Jan. 21, 2010 (Jefferson Franklin Long; b. Mar. 3, 1836; d. Feb. 4, 1901, Macon, Ga.) OCLC, January 21, 2010 (Hdg: Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1900 [sic]; Usage: Hon. J.F. Long) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Long, Jefferson Franklin; slave, political figure, U.S. representative; born 03 March 1836 in Crawford County, Georgia, United States; taught himself to read and write and learned a trade; was freed from slavery at the end of the war; opened a tailor shop in Macon; made speeches for the Georgia Equal Rights and Educational Association (summer of 1867); campaigned diligently for the Ulysses Grant ticket and was rewarded for his efforts with a seat on the Republican state central committee (1868); chosen as a candidate for Congress from the Fourth District (December 1870); was elected only to the third session of the Forty-first Congress (16 January 1871); appeared regularly at Republican state and district gatherings and was a delegate to the national conventions (1872; 1876;1880); helped organize the Union Brotherhood Lodge, a black mutual-aid society; died 04 February 1901 in Macon, Georgia, United States) |
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