He became the first African American elected to the United States Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction.
Hiram R. Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
Blanche K. Bruce as well as Hiram Revels.
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Georgia's 12th district congress seat is currently held by John Barrow. He was elected in 2004. Elections will be held again in November 2014.
THE president is elected by the electrol college. Congress is elected by the people
he was elected the secondcontinental congress on 1787
Because the Reconstruction plan he afforded to Southerners while Congress was adjourned was too generous by the Northern Republican's Standards. The Southerners had their property and citizen's right restored without having to make any concessions with regards to African-American's civil rights. The Southern states enacted Black Codes (special provisions to state law that only applied to African Americans). Blacks were not allowed to vote. Also, all their former Confederate enemies in Congress were re-elected into power.
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
The people that elected them to Congress.
There was no confederate congress so there was no president elected from both.