LC control no. | nr 00037075 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ransier, Alonzo J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882 |
Variant(s) | Ransier, A. J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 18340103 |
Death date | 18820817 |
Place of birth | Charleston (S.C.) |
Place of death | Charleston (S.C.) |
Affiliation | Republican Party (S.C.) South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House United States. Internal Revenue Service |
Profession or occupation | Politicians Legislators Lieutenant governors |
Found in | Southern States Convention of Colored Men (1871 : Columbia, S.C.). Address. In the Convention of the Colored People of the Southern States ... Report, 1871: t.p. (A.J. Ransier, president) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong., 1989 (Ransier, Alonzo Jacob; repr. from S.C.; limited schooling; shipping clerk in 1850, Charleston, S.C.; member of a conv. of the Friends of Equal Rights, Charleston, 1865; S.C. House of Reps. 1868-9; S.C. Const. Conv. 1868, 1869; Lt.-gov. 1870; pres. of Southern States Convention, Columbia, 1871; U.S. Cong. 1873-5; U.S. internal-revenue collector 1875-6; b. Charleston, S.C., January 3, 1834; d. August 17, 1882) MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Ransier, Alonzo J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882; usage: Hon. Alonzo J. Ransier of South Carolina; note: Afro-American congressman, author) African American National Biography, accessed March 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ransier, Alonzo Jacob; politician, U.S. Representative, lieutenant governor; born 03 January 1834 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States; represented Charleston in constitutional convention (1868); was president of the State Republican Executive Committee (1868-1872); elected to the state house of representatives (1868), Charleston County auditor (1868-1870), South Carolina's first black lieutenant governor (1870); represented South Carolina's Second District in the Forty-third Congress (1873-1875); was collector for the Internal Revenue Service for South Carolina's Second District (1875-1877); died 17 August 1882 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States) |