Elected President pro term of the Senate for the whole period.
A very strong character and exerted considerable influence in legislation.
Was in the 54th Ma.s.sachusetts Infantry.
Had musical talent of a high order.
Judge Lee--
Judge of the Munic.i.p.al Court of Charleston, S. C.
A man of ripe scholarship and of high legal attainments.
Until President Roosevelt appointed Judge R. H. Terrell of Washington to a similar position, I think he was the only colored man who ever occupied such a position.
Francis L. Cardozo--
Born in South Carolina, at Charleston.
Educated in Scotland, at Glasgow University.
Delegate to the State Const.i.tutional Convention.
Secretary of State for four years.
State Treasurer for two years.
Scholarly, courtly and dignified.
Took great interest in the education of the colored youth, and was popular among the boys on account of the fatherly interest he manifested in them.
Moved to Washington, D. C., after 1876 and accepted a position in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department.
After serving for several years in the Department he was elected to the Princ.i.p.alship of the Colored High School in Washington, a position he filled with honor and credit to the race and himself.
After his death the Board of Education named one of the School Buildings the "Cardozo Building" as a tribute to his great interest in the educational welfare of the colored race.
Henry E. Hayne--
Born in South Carolina.
Delegate to the State Const.i.tutional Convention.
State Senator from Marion, Co.
Secretary of State.
Was very much interested in the education of the colored youth.
Richard H. Gleaves--
Served two terms as Lieutenant Governor.
Elected with Gov. F. J. Moses in 1872 and with Gov. D. H.
Chamberlin in 1874.
Was nominated a third time with Gov. Chamberlin and elected but forced by the Democrats to withdraw.
Henry W. Purvis--
Born in Philadelphia, Pa.
Son of Hon. Robert Purvis, the great Abolitionist. Member, house of Representatives, 1868-1870, and then was Adjutant General.
Was Adjutant General of the State most of the Reconstruction Period.
He was a man without fear.
In the campaign of 1876 he went to Edgefield, the homes of Generals Butler and Gary, the Democratic leaders, and regarded as fire eaters and spoke on the campaign issues. He also went to other parts of the State equally as dangerous and filled his engagements.
J. J. Wright--
Delegate to the State Const.i.tutional Convention.
On account of his great legal ability he was elected by the legislature as an a.s.sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. (There were two a.s.sociate Justices.) He had the respect of the entire Bar of the State.
He was pre-eminently fitted for the position.
He is the only colored man who has ever occupied such an exalted judicial position in this country.
Thomas E. Miller--
Born at Ferrybeeville, Beaufort Co., June 17, 1849.
Attended the free public school for Negro youths up to the breaking out of the war.
Graduated from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, in 1872.
Read law under Judge P. L. Wiggin and Chief Justice Moses of South Carolina and was admitted to the Supreme Court of S. C. in 1875.
Elected to the House of Representatives of S. C., 1874-1876-1878.
Elected Senator from Beaufort Co., 1880.