Richard Howell Gleaves

Richard Howell Gleaves (* 1819 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  1907 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1872 and 1876 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina .

Career

The sources on Richard Gleaves are not very good. He was born in Philadelphia to a Haitian and an Englishwoman . Nothing is known about his youth and training. But he must have studied law because he later worked as a lawyer and judge. From 1866 he was based in South Carolina, where he ran a goods store with a partner. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In 1870 he became a probate judge in Charleston . Already at that time he was a prominent member of the Freemasons .

In 1872 Gleaves was elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina alongside Franklin Moses . He held this office between 1872 and 1876. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . From 1874 he served under the new governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain . He was the second African American to hold this post after Alonzo J. Ransier . In 1877 Gleaves became a criminal judge in Beaufort . How long he held this office is not known. He died in Washington in 1907.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Clay Smith, Jr .: Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993 ( full text in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ The Father of Prince Hall Freemasonry ... to the South and to the West ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Zoom Info: The Hon. Richard Howell Gleaves
4. ↑ Rod Andrew: Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer . The University of South Carolina Press, 2008 ( full text in Google Book Search).