- Alabama Delegation
Alabama Delegation
This is one of the 50 delegations in the convention, accounting for 18 of 713 people who took part.
Members (18):
| Name | Visualize | Details | Delegations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick G. Bromberg | Visualize | (June 19, 1837 — September 4, 1930) Bromberg was an American politician and lawyer. Frederick Bromberg was born in New York City, but moved with his parents to Mobile Alabama, while in his infancy. He studied chemistry at Harvard University (1861-1863), and later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. As a public servant, he served as Treasure of the City of Mobile (1867-1869), Postmaster of Mobile (1869-1871), and Senate of the State of Alabama (1868-1872). Bromberg was elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-Third Congress and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000864] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Alfred E. Buck | Visualize | (February 7, 1832 — December 4, 1902) Buck was an American politician and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army. Alfred Buck was born in Piscataquis County, Maine. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, he served as a delegate to the constitutional convention of Alabama (1967). He later served as a clerk to the circuit court of Mobil County (1967-1968), and clerk of the United States circuit and district courts in Georgia (1974-1889). Buck was elected as a Republican to the Forty-First Congress from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. When he died, in 1902, he was serving as the Minister to Japan. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001011] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Charles W. Buckley | Visualize | (18 February, 1835 – 4 December, 1906) Buckley was a chaplain, superintendent, and politician. Charles W. Buckley was born in Unadilla, Ostego County, N.Y. He later moved to Freeport, Illinois, and later, Montgomery, Alabama. Buckley was at first a superintendent of education for the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen up and until he became a member of the state’s constitutional convention in 1867. He served in the 40th, 41st, and 42nd, Congresses from 21 of July, 1868 to the 3rd of March, 1873, in addition to the Republican National Convention in 1896. Source: ‘Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present,’ available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B001025 | Alabama Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| John H. Caldwell | Visualize | (April 4, 1826 — September 4, 1902) Caldwell was a lawyer and teacher in Jacksonville Alabama. John Caldwell was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He taught school in Limestone County, Alabama (1844-1848), and was a principle of two academies from 1848-1857. During the Civil War, Caldwell enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as solicitor for the tenth judicial circuit in 1963. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congress from March 4, 1872 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000035] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Peter M. Dox | Visualize | (September 11, 1813 — April 2, 1891) Dox was a lawyer and public servant. Peter Dox was born in Geneva, New York. He studied law and practiced in New York, and served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1855 to 1856. He moved to Madison County, Alabama and was a delegate of the State constitutional convention (1865). He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-First and Forty-Second Congresses from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000478] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| George T. Goldthwaite | Visualize | (December 10, 1809 — March 16, 1879) Goldthwaite was a lawyer and judge. George Goldthwaite was born in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Alabama in 1826. He was a judge of a circuit court (1843-1852) and an associate justice of the State Supreme Court (1852-1856). He was elected as a Democrat and served in the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000266] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| William A. Handley | Visualize | (December 15, 1834 — June 23, 1909) Handley was an American politician and businessman. William Handley was born in Heard County, Georgia and moved to Alabama. He served as a captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and engaged in State politics as a state Senator (1888-1892) and state Representative (1903-1907). Handley was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Second Congress from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1973. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000155] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Charles Hays | Visualize | (February 2, 1834 — June 24, 1879) Hays was an American politician and cotton planter. Charles Hays was born in Greene County, Alabama and attended school in Virginia and Georgia. He served as a major in the Confederate Army and spent most of his political career as a state politician—serving as a state Senator in 1968, and as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1867. He was elected to Congress as a Republican and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000402] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Robert S. Heflin | Visualize | (April 15, 1815 — January 24, 1901) Heflin was a lawyer and public servant. Robert Heflin was born in Madison, Georgia and moved to Alabama in 1844. Heflin served in the Georgia State Senate from 1840-1841 and was elected to the House of Representatives of Alabama after he moved there in 1849. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-First Congress from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000447] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Charles Pelham | Visualize | (March 12, 1835 — January 18, 1908) Pelham was a lawyer and politician. Charles Pelham was born in Person County, North Carolina and moved to Alabama in 1838. He studied and practiced law until 1862, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. He was elected to Congress as a Republican to the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000192] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| James T. Rapier | Visualize | (November 13, 1837 — May 31, 1883) Rapier was an American politician, lawyer, and cotton planter. James Rapier was born in Lauderdale County, Alabama, as a free Black. He served as a notary public (1866), and member to the State constitutional convention in 1867, among other offices. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000064] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Christopher C. Sheats | Visualize | (April 10, 1839 — May 27, 1904) Sheats was an American politician and lawyer. Charles Sheats was born in Walker County, Alabama. He refused to sign the ordinance of secession of the state secession convention in 1860. He was expelled from the State House of Representatives for being loyal to the Union, and was imprisoned by the Confederate Army for treason. He was elected to Congress as a Republican to the Thirty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000314] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| William C. Sherrod | Visualize | (August 17, 1835 — March 24, 1919) Sherrod was an American politician and planter. William Sherrod was born in Lawrence County, Alabama and began his political career in 1859. He served as a member of the State House of Representatives and served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-First Congress from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000352] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Joseph H. Sloss | Visualize | (October 12, 1826 — January 27, 1911) Sloss was a lawyer and engaged in agriculture. Joseph Sloss was born in Somerville, Alabama, and studied and practiced law in Missouri and Illinois. He served as a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives (1858-1859) and returned to Alabama to serve in the Confederate Army. He was elected to Congress as a Democrat to the Forty-Second and Forty-Third Congresses from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000498] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| George E. Spencer | Visualize | (1 November, 1836 – 19 February, 1893) Spencer’s was a practiced lawyer and brevetted brigadier general. George Eliphaz Spencer was born in Champion, Jefferson County, New York. He studied in Canada, moved to Iowa, and Alabama. He was admitted to the bar in 1857. In 1867 he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, reelected in 1872 and served between 13 July, 1868 to 3 March, 1879. https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S000723 | Alabama Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Benjamin S. Turner | Visualize | (March 17, 1825 — March 21, 1894) Turner was an American politician and businessman. Benjamin Turner was born in Weldon, North Carolina as a slave. He moved to Alabama in 1830 and became a mercantilist. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-Second Congress from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000414] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Willard Warner | Visualize | (4 September, 1826 – 23 November, 1906) Warner had a variety of profressions, but was mainly an entrepreneur and brevetted brigadier general and major general. Willard Warner was born in Granville, Licking County, Ohio. He studied in Ohio, and moved to Autauga County, Alabama. Warner served two years in the Ohio senate from 1865 to 1867. He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate from July 13, 1869 to March 3, 1871. https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000159 | Alabama Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Alexander White | Visualize | (October 16, 1816 — December 13, 1893) White was an American politician and lawyer. Alexander White was born in Williamson County, Tennessee and moved to Alabama in 1821. He served as a Whig to the Thirty-Second Congress from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853. After which, he served in the Alabama State constitutional convention (1865) and as a member of the State House of Representatives in 1872. He was elected, again, to Congress as a Republican to the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000353] | Alabama Delegation (This negotiation) |