[5] Served only in the session of 1874-1875.
[6] Served only in the session of 1875-1876.
[7] Alexander is said to have been counted out. He is said to have held the position of postmaster at Madison and also to have had a deputy reserve collector.
[8] Lewis and Scott were the last Negro members of the Florida Legislature.
[9] Lewis and Scott were the last Negro members of the Florida Legislature.
[10] Letter on October 11, 1916, from L. L. Knight, official compiler of Georgia Records; Thompson, Reconstruction in Georgia, pp. 211-214, 262, 264.
[11] The names of these four were later stricken out. They were so nearly white that their race was indeterminate. They remained in the house after the others were expelled.—Thompson, Reconstruction in Georgia, p. 213; House Journal Georgia Legislature, p. 229.
[12] Letter on October 11, 1916, from L.L. Knight, official compiler of Georgia Records.
[13] Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915.
[14] North Carolina Manual, by North Carolina Historical Commission, 1913, pp. 863-906.