George Robinson Black

George Robison Black ( * March 24, 1835 in Jacksonboro, Screven County, Georgia, † November 3, 1886 in Sylvania, Georgia ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Black was a son of Edward Junius Black (1806-1846), who was also of 1839-1845 the State of Georgia in Congress. He attended the common schools and studied at the University of Georgia in Athens and at the University of South Carolina in Columbia after. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1857 admitted to the bar he began in Savannah to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he rose to lieutenant colonel in the army of the Confederacy.

After the war, Black embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1865 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution of Georgia; In 1872 he took part in Baltimore at the Democratic National Convention. Between 1874 and 1877 Black sat in the Senate of Georgia. He was also vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Black was the first electoral district of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded John C. Nicholls took on 4 March 1881 that he had beaten in the preliminary round within his party. Since he lost his hand, two years later in the nomination against Nicholls and therefore was not nominated for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883. After retiring from Congress Black is no longer politically have appeared. He died on November 3, 1886 in Sylvania.