112th Congress, 2nd Session
February 14, 1874
Representative Robert De Large of South Carolina—one of nearly two dozen African Americans to serve in Congress during the Reconstruction Era—died on this date.
August 17, 1882
On this date, South Carolina Representative Alonzo Ransier, a Reconstruction Era African American, died at the age of 48.
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