list of African-American officeholders during Reconstruction

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Federal Office[edit]

Senate[edit]

House[edit]

State Office[edit]

Alabama[edit]

Arkansas[edit]

  • Joseph Carter Corbin, chief clerk of the Little Rock Post Office (1872), state superintendent of public schools (1873-1875)
  • William Henry Grey, Arkansas Constitutional Convention (1868), Arkansas House (1868-1869), Arkansas Senate (1875)
  • James T. White, Arkansas House of Representatives, Arkansas Senate

Florida[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Louisiana[edit]

Massachusetts[edit]

Michigan[edit]

Mississippi[edit]

North Carolina[edit]

  • Israel Abbott, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1872-1874)[2]
  • John O. Crosby, 1875 delegate from Warren County, North Carolina to the North Carolina State Constitutional Convention[3]
  • James Walker Hood, commissioner for the states public schools and assistant superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina (1868-1871)[4]
  • John S. Leary, North Carolina State legislature (1868-1871), alderman in Fayetteville, North Carolina (1876-1877)

South Carolina[edit]

Tennessee[edit]

Texas[edit]

Virginia[edit]

Washington, D.C.[edit]

  • Solomon G. Brown, House of Delegates for Washington D.C. (1871-1874), employee at the Smithsonian[6]
  • John Mercer Langston, appointed member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia
  • John H. Smythe, 1872, clerk in the U.S. Census Bureau, clerk in the Treasury department, 1878 ambassador to Liberia

Local Office[edit]

Arkansas[edit]

Colorado[edit]

Louisiana[edit]

Maryland[edit]

  • William H. Day Baltimore Inspector of Schools, in 1878 he was elected to the school board of directors at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Massachusetts[edit]

Nebraska[edit]

North Carolina[edit]

  • John Hudson Riddick, city council of Norfolk and appointed United States deputy marshal, 1872

Ohio[edit]

  • Jeremiah A. Brown, Cleveland, bailiff of the county probate court, deputy sheriff and county prison turnkey, then clerk of the City Boards of Equalization and Revision.[7]
  • Robert James Harlan, mail agent

South Carolina[edit]

Virginia[edit]

  • P. H. A. Braxton, constable in King William County in 1872, collector at the United States Custom House in Westmoreland County

Washington, D.C.[edit]

  • William E. Matthews, clerk in the United States Postal Service in Washington D.C. in 1870, the first black person to receive an appointment in that department[8]
  • Josiah T. Settle, reading clerk of the Washington, D.C. House of Delegates (1872), clerk in the Board of Public Works, as an accountant in the Board of Audits, and as a trustee of the county schools for the district