Alonzo J. Ransier

Alonzo Jacob Ransier (born January 3, 1834 in Charleston , South Carolina , † August 17, 1882 there ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alonzo Ransier was born a freelance African American in 1834 . This made him not a slave despite the widespread slavery in South Carolina at the time . However, he received only a limited education and was active in the dispatch of goods from 1850. After the Civil War , Ransier began a political career as a Republican . In 1865 he was a member of an equality movement in Charleston called Friends of Equal Rights .

Ransier was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina in 1868 and 1869 . At the same time he was also a member of a commission for the revision of the state constitution. In 1870 he was elected the first black lieutenant governor of South Carolina. In 1871, he was president of a meeting of the Southern ( Southern States Convention ), in Columbia took place. In 1872 Ransier took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , at which US President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for re-election. Ransier then campaigned for Grant.

Also in 1872, Ransier was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second Constituency of South Carolina . There he succeeded Robert C. De Large on March 4, 1873 , who had occupied this seat until January 24, 1873, when he was declared vacant after an objection to the election. In Congress , Ransier was in favor of high import tariffs and against a pay rise for civil servants. He also advocated an extension of the president's term of office from four to six years, but was unable to prevail.

Between 1875 and 1876, Alonzo Ransier was the tax director of South Carolina's Second Financial District. He died on August 17, 1882 in his native city of Charleston.

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SURNAME	Ransier, Alonzo J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ransier, Alonzo Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1882
Place of death	Charleston , South Carolina