practises
his profession; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of
South Carolina in 1868; was a member of the House of Representatives
of South Carolina from July 6, 1868, to October 23, 1870; was
appointed on the 25th of March, 1869, assistant adjutant-general,
which position he held until he was elected a representative from
South Carolina in the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving
20,564 votes against 13,997 votes for J. E. Bacon, Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1871, to 1873, when he resigned; and was re-elected to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 21,627 votes
against 1,094 votes for W. H. McCan, Democrat, serving from December
1, 1873, to May, 1874, when he resigned, having been elected sheriff.

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JERE HARALSON was born in Muscogee County, Georgia, April 1, 1846, the
slave property of John Walker; after Walker's death, was sold on the
auction-block in the city of Columbus, and bought by J. W. Thompson,
after whose death he became the property of J. Haralson, of Selma, and
so remained until emancipated in 1865; received no education until
after he was free, when he instructed himself; was elected to the
State House of Representatives of Alabama in 1870; was elected to the
State Senate of Alabama in 1872; was elected a representative from
Alabama in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,551
votes against 16,953 votes for F. G. Bromberg, Democrat, serving from
December 6, 1875, to March 3, 1877; was defeated by the Republican
candidate for the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,675 votes against
9,685 votes for Charles L. Shelley, Democrat, and 7,236 votes for
James T. Rapier, Republican.

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JOHN R. LYNCH was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, September 10,
1847, a slave; and he remained in slavery until emancipated by the
results of the Rebellion, receiving no early education; a purchaser of
his mother carried her with her children to Natchez, where, when the
Union troops took possession, he attended evening school for a few
months, and he has since by private study acquired a good English
education; he engaged in the business of photography at Natchez until
1869, when Governor Ames appointed him a justice of the peace; he was
elected a member of the State Legislature from Adams County, and
re-elected in 1871, serving the last term as Speaker of the House; was
elected