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Ransier, Alonzo J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882

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Personal name headingRansier, Alonzo J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882
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Variant(s)Ransier, A. J. (Alonzo Jacob), 1834-1882
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date18340103
Death date18820817
Place of birthCharleston (S.C.)
Place of deathCharleston (S.C.)
AffiliationRepublican Party (S.C.) South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House United States. Internal Revenue Service
Profession or occupationPoliticians Legislators Lieutenant governors
Found inSouthern 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)