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
editDelegates to the convention were elected by district.[2] Its members included the following:[2]
First Election District
edit- 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
editThird Election District
editFourth Election District
editFifth Election District
editSixth Election District
editSeventh Election District
editEighth Election District
editNinth Election District
editTenth Election District
editEleventh Election District
editTwelfth Election District
editThirteenth Election District)
editFourteenth Election District
editFifteenth Election District
editSixteenth Election District
editSeventeenth Election District
editEighteenth Election District
edit- Simeon Beard
- Foster Blodgett
- J. E. Bryant
- Rufus B. Bullock
- Benjamin Conley
- John Neal
- Alexander Stone
Nineteenth Election District
editTwentieth Election District
editTwenty-first Election District
editTwenty-second Election District
editTwenty-third Election District
editTwenty-fourth Election District
editTwenty-fifth Election District
editTwenty-sixth Election District
editTwenty-seventh Election District
editTwenty-eighth Election District
editTwenty-ninth Election District
editThirtieth Election District
editThirty-first Election District
editThirty-second Election District
editThirty-third Election District
editThirty-fourth Election District
editThirty-fifth Election District
editThirty-sixth Election District
editThirty-seventh Election District
editThirty-eighth Election District
editThirty-ninth Election District
editFortieth Election District
editForty-first Election District
editForty-second Election District
editForty-third Election District
editForty-fourth Election District
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Dec. 9, 1867: Georgia Constitutional Convention". Zinn Education Project. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ 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.