Robert Brown Elliott (1842-1884) was an African American member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.
Born in Liverpool, England to West Indian immigrants, he graduated from Eton College in 1859, and served in the British Royal Navy. He moved to South Carolina in 1867 and established a law practice. Elliott helped organize the local Republican Party and served in the state constitutional convention. In 1868 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. The next year he was appointed assistant adjutant-general; he was the first African American commanding general of the South Carolina National Guard. As part of his job, he helped form a state militia to fight the Ku Klux Klan.
Elliott was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third United States Congress. He "delivered a celebrated speech" in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. He resigned on November 1 , 1874 , to fight political corruption in South Carolina. He served again in the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he was elected as Speaker of the House.
He ran unsuccessfully for South Carolina Attorney General in 1876. Reconstruction ended that year and he was forced out of office. He set up a private law practice in New Orleans.
References
- ^ "Biographical Sidebar: Robert B. Elliott". America's Reconstruction - People and Politics After th Civil War . University of Houston . http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section4/section4_elliott.html . Retrieved 2009-08-27 .
External links
- Robert B. Elliott at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- African American Registry Board
Further reading
- ”Robert Brown Elliott” in Black Americans in Congress , 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2008
- Lamson, Peggy. The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina. New York:
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