House of Representatives – 1880s and 1890s
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897)
John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia, on December 14, 1829....
George Washington Murray (1853-1926)
South Carolina Congressman George Washington Murray was born near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, on September 22, 1853 to enslaved...
Henry Plummer Cheatham (1857-1935)
Born into slavery in Henderson, North Carolina, Henry Cheatham was the child of an enslaved domestic worker about who little...
Robert Smalls (1839 -1915)
Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the...
James Edward O’Hara (1844-1905)
North Carolina congressman James O’Hara was born a free person in New York City to an Irish merchant and West...
Thomas E. Miller (1849-1938)
Politician and educator, Thomas E. Miller was born in Ferrebeeville, Beaufort County, South Carolina on June 17, 1849. Miller was...
George Henry White (1852-1918)
George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901)...
