Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868 explained
The 1867–1868 Georgia State Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of constructing a constitution for the state following the end of the American Civil War. Held in Atlanta, the convention started on December 9, 1867 and ran through March 1868.[1] [2]
Its delegates included 137 white men and 33 African American men. It was the first constitutional convention to involve the participation of African-American delegates. It created a new constitution for Georgia that included suffrage for African-American males; this was a mandate of the congressional Reconstruction Acts.
Delegates
Delegates to the convention were elected by district. Its members included the following:
First Election District
- M. H. Bentley
- Aaron Alpeoria Bradley
- Walter L. Clift
- A. L. Harris
- C. H. Hopkins
- W. H. D. Reynolds
- Isaac Seeley
- James Stewart
Second Election District
Third Election District
Fourth Election District
Fifth Election District
Sixth Election District
- Levi J. Knight
- Lewis H. Roberts
Seventh Election District
- W. C. Carson
- J. L. Cutler
- M. C. Smith
Eighth Election District
Ninth Election District
- H. H. Christian
- William W. Dews
- Charles C. Martin
Tenth Election District
Eleventh Election District
- Robert Alexander
- J. A. Jackson
- W. H. Noble
- John Whitaker
Twelfth Election District
Thirteenth Election District)
- Jesse Dinkins
- J. E. Hall
- Robert Lumpkin
- H. K. McCoy
- F. Snead
Fourteenth Election District
- J. M. Buchan
- S. F. Salter
- Simeon Stanley
- J. W. Trawick
Fifteenth Election District
Sixteenth Election District
Seventeenth Election District
Eighteenth Election District
Nineteenth Election District
- Joseph Adkins
- D. P. Baldwin
- John W. T. Catchings
- Robert Crumbley
- Henry Strickland
Twentieth Election District
Twenty-first Election District
- Thomas Gibson
- Samuel Gove
- William Griffin
- Charles Hooks
Twenty-second Election District
- F. Wooten
- A. Bowdoin
- M. Cooper
- W. J. Howe
- M. A. Potts
- T. J. Speer
- Henry McNeal Turner
- G. G. Wilbur
Twenty-third Election District
Twenty-fourth Election District
Twenty-fifth Election District
Twenty-sixth Election District
- S. T. W. Minor
- W. H. Rozar
- W. H. Whitehead
Twenty-seventh Election District
- James C. Barton
- J. W. Christian
- C. D. Davis
- John Harris
- N. P. Hotchkiss
Twenty-eighth Election District
- A. G. Foster
- H. S. Glover
- J. R. Hudson
- William F. Jordan
- T. P. Saffold
Twenty-ninth Election District
Thirtieth Election District
Thirty-first Election District
- William F. Bowers
- S. W. Crawford
- Philip Martin
Thirty-second Election District
Thirty-third Election District
- Madison Bell
- Benjamin Dunnigan
- William L. Marler
Thirty-fourth Election District
- J. R. Bracewell
- Shadrick Brown
- S. E. Dailey
- J. Mathews
- B. D. Shumate
Thirty-fifth Election District
- Nedom L. Angier
- H. G. Cole
- James L. Dunning
- J. H. Flinn
- David Irwin
- W. C. Lee
- H. V. M. Miller
Thirty-sixth Election District
- J. S. Bigby
- J. C. Bowden
- P. W. Chambers
- J. W. Key
- W. C. Smith
Thirty-seventh Election District
- John H. Caldwell
- A. H. Harrison
- George Harlan
- E. B. Martin
- Robert Robertson
Thirty-eighth Election District
- T. J. Foster
- R. B. Hutcherson
- J. D. Waddell
Thirty-ninth Election District
- A. W. Holcombe
- S. T. Houston
- J. G. Lott
Fortieth Election District
Forty-first Election District
- C. A. Ellington
- Wilkey McHan
Forty-second Election District
- George B. Burnett
- William A. Fort
- W. L. Goodwin
- J. R. Parrott
- Wesley Shropshire
Forty-third Election District
- S. E. Fields
- John H. King
- Leander Newton Trammell
Forty-fourth Election District
- John M. Shields
- Presley Yates
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Dec. 9, 1867: Georgia Constitutional Convention . 2023-01-18 . Zinn Education Project . en-US.
- Journal of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the people of Georgia : held in the City of Atlanta in the months of December, 1867, and January, February and March, 1868, and ordinances and resolutions adopted / published by order of the Convention. Augusta, Georgia: E. H. Pughe Book & Job Printer, 1868. Accessed January 18, 2023.