Alonzo J. Ransier

Alonzo Jacob Ransier ( born January 3, 1834 in Charleston, South Carolina; † August 17, 1882 ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alonzo Ransier was born in 1834 as a free African Americans. He was not a slave, despite the then widespread in South Carolina slavery. But he received only a limited education and was from 1850 when shipment of goods act. After the Civil War Ransier began a political career as a Republican. In 1865 he was a member of a gender equality movement in Charleston, the Friends of Equal Rights called.

In the years 1868 and 1869 Ransier sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. At the same time he was also a member of a commission to revise the State Constitution. In 1870 he was elected the first black lieutenant governor of South Carolina. In 1871 he was president of a meeting of the Southern States ( Southern States Convention ), which was held in Columbia. 1872 took Ransier as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in part, on the U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for re-election. Ransier then made for Grant campaign.

Also in 1872 Ransier in the second constituency of South Carolina was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1873, the successor of Robert C. De Large, who had occupied this seat until January 24, 1873 before he was declared after an election objection vacant. In Congress Ransier was for high import duties and against a salary increase of government employees. He also argued for an extension of the terms of office of the President from four to six years, but could not prevail.

Between 1875 and 1876 led Alonzo Ransier the tax authorities in the second Financial District of South Carolina. He died on August 17, 1882 in his hometown of Charleston.