Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868

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.[1] 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.[1]

Delegates

Delegates to the convention were elected by district.[2] Its members included the following:[2]

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

  • Tunis G. Campbell
  • William A. Goulding

Third Election District

  • A. M. Moore

Fourth Election District

  • F. M. Smith

Fifth Election District

  • P. B. Bedford

Sixth Election District

  • Levi J. Knight
  • Lewis H. Roberts

Seventh Election District

  • W. C. Carson
  • J. L. Cutler
  • M. C. Smith

Eighth Election District

  • John Higden
  • B. F. Powell
  • Richard H. Whiteley

Ninth Election District

  • H. H. Christian
  • William W. Dews
  • Charles C. Martin

Tenth Election District

  • Philip Joiner
  • John Murphy
  • Benjamin Sikes
  • F. O. Welch

Eleventh Election District

  • Robert Alexander
  • J. A. Jackson
  • W. H. Noble
  • John Whitaker

Twelfth Election District

  • J. E. Blount
  • G. W. Chatters
  • Thomas Crayton

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

  • A. J. Cameron

Sixteenth Election District

  • E. W. Lane
  • George Linder

Seventeenth Election District

  • Malcolm Claiborne
  • H. H. Glisson
  • J. A. Madden
  • J. M. Rice
  • Robert Whitehead

Eighteenth Election District

  • Simeon Beard
  • Foster Blodgett
  • J. E. Bryant
  • Rufus B. Bullock
  • Benjamin Conley
  • John Neal
  • Alexander Stone

Nineteenth Election District

  • Joseph Adkins
  • D. P. Baldwin
  • John W. T. Catchings
  • Robert Crumbley
  • Henry Strickland

Twentieth Election District

  • William Henry Harrison
  • Daniel Palmer
  • Charles H. Prince
  • C. C. Richardson
  • W. C. Supple
  • George Wallace

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

  • J. H. Anderson
  • S. A. Cobb
  • William P. Edwards
  • Posey Maddox
  • O. H. Walton

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

  • Milton Moore
  • J. A. Woody

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

  • John Bryson
  • W. T. Crane

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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dec. 9, 1867: Georgia Constitutional Convention". Zinn Education Project. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  2. ^ a b c 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.