The 1867–1868 Georgia State Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of constructing a constitution for the state following the end of the American...
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George W. Ashburn (category History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state))
disabilities of all disenfranchised Georgians. Ashburn called to order the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868, held in Atlanta, which also aimed...
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suffrage for freedmen. In late 1867 Arkansas elected delegates to a new Constitutional Convention, which took place in early 1868 in the old capital building...
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The Florida Constitutional Convention of 1885 produced a constitution that reversed some of the aspects of the Reconstruction era 1868 Constitution....
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Tunis Campbell (category African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state))
registration organizer, Justice of the Peace, a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868, and as a Georgia state senator during the Reconstruction...
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era (redirect from List of African American officeholders during Reconstruction)
state's constitutional convention between 1867 and 1872. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley – Chatham, Bryan, and Effingham counties 1868 (also Georgia Constitutional Convention...
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interpretation of federal provisions. The State of New York has held nine Constitutional Conventions: in 1776–1777, 1801, 1821, 1846, 1867–1868, 1894, 1915...
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call forth a constitutional convention to adopt a new framework of government. A constitutional convention met in Charleston, January 14, 1868. For the first...
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Constitutional Convention of 1865 Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868 Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877 Georgia Constitutional Commission of 1945...
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Constituent assembly (redirect from Constitutional convention (political meeting))
(also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising...
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was constructed. The constitutional convention agreed and the people voted to ratify the decision on April 20, 1868. The Georgia General Assembly first...
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The 1868 Republican National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in Crosby's Opera House, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois,...
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to Atlanta in 1868. In 1867, the military governor of Georgia called for an assembly in Atlanta to discuss a constitutional convention. Atlanta officials...
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The 1868 Democratic National Convention was held at the Tammany Hall headquarters building in New York City between July 4, and July 9, 1868. The first...
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at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, but, after several ballots, the convention nominated Seymour, who had formerly served as Governor of New York...
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history of the state. Constitutional conventions in Georgia were held after the Civil War in 1865 and 1867–1868. "Georgia Secession Convention of 1861"...
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Simeon Beard (category African-American people in Georgia (U.S. state) politics)
and then in Augusta, Georgia. He served in the Union Army. He was a delegate to Georgia's constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868. African American legislators...
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Thomas Crayton (category Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans)
He was born in Georgia. He represented Stewart County, Georgia. He was a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868. Drago, Edmund...
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Constitutional Convention in 1974, ratified by the voters of the state on April 20, 1974, and became effective on January 1, 1975. The beginning of statehood...
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Reconstruction Acts (redirect from Reconstruction Act of 1867)
Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867, 15 Stat. 14-16, c.30; and March 11, 1868, 15 Stat. 41,...
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delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention 1865, Georgia State Senator 1868–72, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1872 1876, U.S....
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Liberty, McIntosh, and Tattnall counties – to Georgia's constitutional convention. In April 1868, Campbell was elected as the state senator for the second...
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Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals. Son of Homer E. Abele. Watkins Moorman Abbitt (1908–1998), delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1945...
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delegates to a new constitutional convention, held in Atlanta rather than the state capital of Milledgeville, to prevent the interference of the ex-Confederates...
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Hume, Richard L. "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the...
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of West Virginia, and Daniel Lamb, a member of West Virginia's constitutional convention and former delegate. Boreman, having received majorities of the...
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The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove...
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Scalawag (category Politics of the Southern United States)
members of the 1867 constitutional convention (49.5% of the Republican membership); seven scalawags were members of the 1875 constitutional convention (58%...
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to a second term. Republicans hold every statewide, elected constitutional office in Georgia, as well as majorities in both the State House and the State...
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Christopher C. Bowen (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina)
delegate to the State constitutional convention in November 1867. Upon the readmission of South Carolina to the Union in 1868, he was elected as a Democrat...
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