Negro Members of General Assembly of North Carolina During Reconstruction Period and After[15]
Number White and Negro Members Each Session of the Assembly in which there were Negro Members
(Number Senators in Assembly, 50; Representatives, 120)
Delegates to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention[16] Held at Charleston, January 14 to March 18, 1868[17]
Abbeville—John A. Hunter, B. Milford, white; H. J. Lomax, W. N. Joiner, Thomas Williamson, colored.
Anderson—William Perry, N. J. Newall, white; Samuel Johnson, colored.
Berkeley—M. F. Becker, D. H. Chamberlain, Timothy Hurley, Joseph H. Jenks, A. C. Richmond, white; William Jervey, Benjamin Byas, W. H. W. Gray, George Lee, colored.
Beaufort—J. D. Bell, R. G. Holmes, white; F. E. Wilder, L. S. Langley, W. J. Whipper, Robert Smalls, J. J. Wright, colored.
Barnwell—C. P. Leslie, Niles G. Parker, white; James N. Hayne, A. Middleton, C. D. Hayne, Julius Mayer, colored.
Charleston—A. G. Mackey, C. C. Bowen, Gilbert Pillsbury, white; F. L. Cardozo, William McKinlay, R. H. Cain, R. C. DeLarge, A. J. Ransier, colored.
Chester—Purvis Alexander, Barney Burton, Sancho Sanders, colored.
Chesterfield—R. J. Donaldson, white; H. L. Shrewsbury, colored.
Clarendon—Elias E. Dickson, white; William Nelson, colored.
Colleton—J. S. Craig, white; William M. Thomas, William Driffle, W. M. Vinery, colored.
Darlington—B. F. Whittemore, white; Isaac Brockenton, Jordan Lang, Richard Humbird, colored.
Edgefield—Frank Arnim, white; R. B. Elliott, Prince R. Rivers, John Bonum, David Harris, John Wooley, colored.
Fairfield—James M. Rutland, white; H. D. Edwards, Henry Jacob, colored.
Georgetown—Henry W. Webb, white; F. F. Miller, Joseph H. Rainey, colored.
Greenville—James M. Allen, J. M. Runion, white; Wilson Cook, W. B. Johnson, colored.
Horry—Henry Jones, A. R. Thompson, colored.
Kershaw—J. K. Jillson, S. G. W. Dill, white; John A. Chestnut, colored.
Lancaster—Albert Clinton, Charles Jones, colored.
Lexington—Lemanuel Boozer, Simeon Corley, white.
Laurens—Joseph Crews, Y. J. P. Owens, white; Harry McDaniels, Nelson Davis, colored.
Marion—W. S. Collins, white; J. W. Johnson, H. E. Hayne, B. A. Thompson, colored.
Marlboro—Calvin Stubbs, George Jackson, colored.
Newberry—B. O. Duncan, white; James Henderson, Lee Nance, colored.
Orangeburg—E. W. M. Mackey, white; E. J. Cain, W. J. McKinlay, T. K. Sasportas, B. F. Randolph, colored.
Pickens—M. Mauldin, Alexander Bryce, L. B. Johnson, white.
Richland—Thomas J. Robertson, white; W. B. Nash, S. B. Thompson, C. M. Wilder, colored.
Spartanburg—J. P. F. Camp, J. S. Gentry, white; Rice Foster, Coy Wingo, colored.
Sumter—T. J. Coghlan, F. J. Moses, Jr., white; W. E. Johnson, Samuel Lee, colored.
Union—J. H. Goss, white; Abram Dogan, Samuel Nuckles, colored.
Williamsburg—William Darrington, white; C. M. Olsen, S. A. Swails, colored.
York—J. L. Neagle, William E. Rose, white; J. W. Mead, J. H. White, colored.
Three of the delegates elected failed to attend,—F. A. Sawyer, white, Charleston; John K. Terry, white, Colleton; George D. Medis, colored, Edgefield.
Of the 124 delegates elected, forty-eight were white and seventy-six colored. The white men classed as Republicans were about equally divided as natives or newcomers—in the vernacular of the times, "scalawags" or "carpetbaggers."
The following table gives the previous residence of the delegates: