Congress, receiving 18,180 votes against 16,661
votes for J. S. Richardson, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1869.

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ALONZO J. RANSIER was born at Charlestown, South Carolina, in January,
1834; was self-educated; was employed as shipping-clerk in 1850 by a
leading merchant, who was tried for violation of law in "hiring a
Colored clerk," and fined one cent with costs; was one of the foremost
in the works of reconstruction in 1865; was a member of a convention
of the friends of equal rights in October, 1865, at Charlestown, and
was deputed to present the memorial there framed to Congress; was
elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1868; was
elected a member of the House of Representatives in the State
Legislature in 1869; was chosen chairman of the State Republican
Central Committee, which position he held until 1872; was elected a
presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868; was
elected lieutenant-governor of South Carolina in 1870 by a large
majority; was president of the Southern States Convention at Columbia
in 1871; was chosen a delegate to, and was a vice-president of, the
Philadelphia Convention which nominated Grant and Wilson in 1872; and
was elected a representative from South Carolina in the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,061 votes against 6,549 votes
for W. Gurney, Independent Republican, serving from December 1, 1873,
to March 3, 1875.

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JAMES T. RAPIER was born in Florence, Alabama, in 1840; was educated
in Canada; is a planter; was appointed a notary public by the governor
of Alabama in 1866; was a member of the first Republican Convention
held in Alabama, and was one of the committee that framed the platform
of the party; represented Lauderdale County in the Constitutional
Convention held at Montgomery in 1867; was nominated for secretary of
State in 1870, but defeated with the rest of the ticket; was appointed
assessor of internal revenue for the second collection-district of
Alabama in 1871; was appointed State commissioner to the Vienna
Exposition in. 1873 by the governor of Alabama; was elected a
representative from Alabama in the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican, receiving 19,100 votes against 16,000 votes for C. W.
Oates, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875; and
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the Forty-fourth
Congress, r