George Robison Black

George Robison Black (born March 24, 1835 in Jacksonboro , Screven County , Georgia , †  November 3, 1886 in Sylvania , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Black was a son of Edward Junius Black (1806-1846), who also represented Georgia in Congress between 1839 and 1845 . He attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Georgia at Athens and the University of South Carolina at Columbia . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1857, he began to work in Savannah in his new profession. During the Civil War he rose in the army of the Confederation up to lieutenant colonel.

After the war, Black began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1865 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Georgia state constitution; In 1872 he took part in the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore . Black served in the Georgia Senate between 1874 and 1877 . He was also the Vice President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society .

In the congressional elections of 1880 Black was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded John C. Nicholls on March 4, 1881 , whom he had defeated in the preliminary round of his party . Since he in turn lost the nomination against Nicholls two years later and was therefore not nominated for re-election, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1883. After leaving Congress, Black was no longer politically active. He died on November 3, 1886 in Sylvania.

Web links

• George Robison Black in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Robison Black in the database of Find a Grave (English)