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Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901

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Personal name headingLong, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901
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Variant(s)Long, J. F., 1836-1901
Biography/History noteJefferson Franklin Long was a slave.
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date18360303
Death date19010204
Place of birthCrawford County (Ga.)
Place of deathMacon (Ga.)
AffiliationGeorgia Equal Rights and Educational Association United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Union Brotherhood Lodge (Organization)
Profession or occupationPoliticians Legislators
Found inNew 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)