George Robison Black
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Georgia's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883
Preceded byJohn C. Nicholls
Succeeded byJohn C. Nicholls
Member of the Georgia Senate
from the 17th district
In office
January 13, 1875 – February 22, 1877
Preceded byJoseph S. Cone
Succeeded byHerman H. Perry
Personal details
BornMarch 24, 1835 (1835-03-24)
Near Jacksonboro, Georgia
DiedNovember 3, 1886 (1886-11-04) (aged 51)
Sylvania, Georgia
Resting placeSylvania Cemetery[1]
Sylvania, Georgia
Citizenship United States
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionAttorney
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Rank Lieutenant colonel
Commands 63rd Georgia Regiment
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

George Robison Black (March 24, 1835 – November 3, 1886) was an American slave owner,[2] politician and lawyer. His wife, Nellie Peters Black, became a prominent social activist.[3]

Biography

Black was born at his family's slave plantation near Jacksonboro, Georgia as the son of Edward Junius Black and Augusta George Anna Kirkland Black.[4] He attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens and the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1857 and began practice in Savannah, Georgia.[5]

During the American Civil War, Black served in the Confederate States Army as a first lieutenant in the Phoenix Riflemen and later as a lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-third Georgia Regiment.[5]

After the war, Black participated in the Georgia constitutional convention in 1865 and was a delegate to the 1872 Democratic National Convention. He later served as state Senator from 1875 to 1877 and was the vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. Black was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1880 as a Democrat in the 47th Congress; however, he lost his reelection campaign in 1882. He died in Sylvania, Georgia, in 1886 and was buried in Sylvania Cemetery.[5]

References

  1. ^ "George Robison Black". Find A Grave. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 27, 2022, retrieved January 31, 2022
  3. ^ Chirhart, Ann Short (2009). Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820333366.
  4. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 16. New York: James T White & Company. 1918. p. 229.
  5. ^ a b c "Black, George Robison". United States Congress. Retrieved March 23, 2018.

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U.S. House of Representatives Preceded byJohn C. Nicholls Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 1st congressional district March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883 Succeeded byJohn C. Nicholls
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