Negroes Elected in 1871[13]
Additions and Corrections for Mississippi
Josiah T. Settle was a member of the House from Panola in 1883-84.
G. W. Gayles was a member of the House 1873-77 and a member of the Senate 1877 to some time after 1886. He was the last Negro to be a member of the Mississippi Senate. For sketch of his career see Simmons' Men of Mark, 379-381.
Garner, Reconstruction in Mississippi, page 294, gives Negro members of the Mississippi Legislature for 1873 as Senate, 9; House, 55. On page 402, for 1876, Senate, 5; House, 16. Total membership, Senate, 37. Total membership, House, 116.
Negro Members of the North Carolina Reconstruction Constitutional Conventions, 1868 and 1875
Dates of the Conventions January 14-March 17, 1868, and September 6-October 11, 1875. Total members of each Convention 120. Negro members, 13 in Convention of 1868, and 5 in Convention of 1875.
| County | Year | Name |
| Bertie | 1868 | P. D. Robbins |
| Bryant Lee | ||
| Caswell | 1868 | Wilson Cary |
| Caswell | 1875 | Wilson Cary |
| Craven | 1868 | C. D. Pierson |
| Duplin | 1868 | J. W. Petterson |
| Samuel Highsmith | ||
| Edgcombe | 1868 | Henry C. Cherry |
| Edgcombe | 1875 | W. P. Mabson |
| Franklin | 1868 | John H. Williamson |
| Halifax | 1868 | Henry Epps |
| W. J. T. Hayes | ||
| Halifax | 1875 | J E. O'Hara |
| New Hanover | 1868 | A. H. Galloway |
| New Hanover | 1875 | J. H. Smythe |
| Wake | 1868 | James H. Harris |
| Warren | 1868 | John Hyman |
| Warren | 1875 | J. O. Crosby |