This section provides brief biographies of the delegates 1871 convention in South Carolina, who hailed from all over the South. Some of the delegates in this convention later organized and attended the 1884 State Conference of Colored Men of Florida. Coverage of the Colored Men’s Convention in Mobile, Alabama, 1865, appears in the New Orleans Tribune and the Chicago Tribune providing more information about the many delegates who attended both the South Carolina and Alabama conventions.
» The names of the delegates are listed below, and their biographies, if available, are listed under the state they represented. Click on the state name to be taken to that page.
Alabama
James T. Rapier
Arkansas
John H. Johnson
Florida
Jonathan C. Gibbs
Josiah T. Walls
Georgia
Edwin Belcher
Charles L. Bradwell
Tunis G. Campbell
John H. Deveaux
William A. Golden
William H. Harrison
John McCluskey
William Henry Noble
John F. Quarles
James Merilus Simms
Henry McNeal Turner
L. W. West
Louisiana
Felix. C. Antoine
J. Henri Burch
Edward Butler
Edgar Davis
Benjamin Geddis
W. G. Johnson
George E. Paris
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
Maryland
Isaac Myers
Mississippi
S. H. Scott
North Carolina
Thomas A. Sykes
South Carolina
Benjamin A. Boseman
Richard H. Cain
Wilson Cooke
Robert Brown Elliott
Henry E. Hayne
Samuel J. Lee
William Beverly Nash
Joseph H. Rainey
Alonzo J. Ransier
William J. Whipper
John White
Frank Williamson
Tennessee
Andrew J. Flowers
Texas
Richard Allen
J. DeBruhl
James Green
Richard Nelson
David G. Scott
J. H. Townsend
Credits
Written by Samantha de Vera, University of California, San Diego.
Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman.
Acknowledgements: Samantha de Vera and Michelle Byrnes for further edits, visualization contributions, and technical assistance.
