a representative from Mississippi in the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican, receiving 15,391 votes against 8,430 votes for H.
Cassidy, Sr., Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Republican (defeating Roderick Seals, Democrat), serving
from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1877.

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CHARLES E. NASH was born at Opelousas, Louisiana; received a
common-school education at New Orleans; was a bricklayer by trade;
enlisted as private in the Eighty-third Regiment, United States
Chasseurs d'Afrique, April 20, 1863, and was promoted until he became
acting sergeant-major of the regiment; lost a leg at the storming of
Fort Blakely, and was honorably discharged from the army May 30, 1865;
was elected a representative from Louisiana in the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,156 votes against 12,085 votes
for Joseph M. Moore, Democrat, serving from December 6, 1875, to March
3, 1877; was defeated as the Republican candidate for the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 11,147 votes against 15,520 votes for Edward White
Robertson, Democrat.

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JOSEPH H. RAINEY was born at Georgetown, South Carolina (where both of
his parents were slaves, but, by their industry, obtained their
freedom), June 21, 1832; although debarred by law from attending
school he acquired a good education, and further improved his mind by
observation and travel; his father was a barber, and he followed that
occupation at Charlestown till 1862, when, having been forced to work
on the fortifications of the Confederates, he escaped to the West
Indies, where he remained until the close of the war, when he returned
to his native town; he was elected a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention of 1868, and was a member of the State
Senate of South Carolina in 1870, resigning when elected a
representative from South Carolina in the Forty-first Congress as a
Republican (to fill the vacancy caused by the non-reception of B. F.
Whittemore), by a majority of 17,193 votes over Dudley, Conservative;
was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 20,221 votes
against 11,628 votes for C. W. Dudley, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 19,765 votes, being all that were
cast; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 14,370
votes against 13,563 votes for Samuel Lee, Republican; was re-elected
to the Forty-fifth