Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868

The 1867–1868 Georgia State Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of constructing a constitution for the state following the end of the American Civil War. Held in Atlanta, the convention started on December 9, 1867 and ran through March 1868.[1][2]

Its delegates included 137 white men and 33 African American men.[1] It was the first constitutional convention to involve the participation of African-American delegates. It created a new constitution for Georgia that included suffrage for African-American males; this was a mandate of the congressional Reconstruction Acts.[1]

## Delegates

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Delegates to the convention were elected by district.[2] Its members included the following:[2]

### First Election District

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* M. H. Bentley
* Aaron Alpeoria Bradley
* Walter L. Clift
* A. L. Harris
* C. H. Hopkins
* W. H. D. Reynolds
* Isaac Seeley
* James Stewart

### Second Election District

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* Tunis G. Campbell
* William A. Goulding

### Third Election District

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* A. M. Moore

### Fourth Election District

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* F. M. Smith

### Fifth Election District

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* P. B. Bedford

### Sixth Election District

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* Levi J. Knight
* Lewis H. Roberts

### Seventh Election District

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* W. C. Carson
* J. L. Cutler
* M. C. Smith

### Eighth Election District

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* John Higden
* B. F. Powell
* Richard H. Whiteley

### Ninth Election District

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* H. H. Christian
* William W. Dews
* Charles C. Martin

### Tenth Election District

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* Philip Joiner
* John Murphy
* Benjamin Sikes
* F. O. Welch

### Eleventh Election District

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* Robert Alexander
* J. A. Jackson
* W. H. Noble
* John Whitaker

### Twelfth Election District

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* J. E. Blount
* G. W. Chatters
* Thomas Crayton

### Thirteenth Election District)

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* Jesse Dinkins
* J. E. Hall
* Robert Lumpkin
* H. K. McCoy
* F. Snead

### Fourteenth Election District

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* J. M. Buchan
* S. F. Salter
* Simeon Stanley
* J. W. Trawick

### Fifteenth Election District

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* A. J. Cameron

### Sixteenth Election District

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* E. W. Lane
* George Linder

### Seventeenth Election District

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* Malcolm Claiborne
* H. H. Glisson
* J. A. Madden
* J. M. Rice
* Robert Whitehead

### Eighteenth Election District

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* Simeon Beard
* Foster Blodgett
* J. E. Bryant
* Rufus B. Bullock
* Benjamin Conley
* John Neal
* Alexander Stone

### Nineteenth Election District

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* Joseph Adkins
* D. P. Baldwin
* John W. T. Catchings
* Robert Crumbley
* Henry Strickland

### Twentieth Election District

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* William Henry Harrison
* Daniel Palmer
* Charles H. Prince
* C. C. Richardson
* W. C. Supple
* George Wallace

### Twenty-first Election District

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* Thomas Gibson
* Samuel Gove
* William Griffin
* Charles Hooks

### Twenty-second Election District

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* F. Wooten
* A. Bowdoin
* M. Cooper
* W. J. Howe
* M. A. Potts
* T. J. Speer
* Henry McNeal Turner
* G. G. Wilbur

### Twenty-third Election District

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* J. H. Anderson
* S. A. Cobb
* William P. Edwards
* Posey Maddox
* O. H. Walton

### Twenty-fourth Election District

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* George W. Ashburn
* J. C. Casey
* Thomas Gilbert
* Van Jones
* J. G. Maul

### Twenty-fifth Election District

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* T. J. Costin
* William Guilford
* E. J. Higbee
* L. L. Stanford
* Samuel Williams

### Twenty-sixth Election District

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* S. T. W. Minor
* W. H. Rozar
* W. H. Whitehead

### Twenty-seventh Election District

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* James C. Barton
* J. W. Christian
* C. D. Davis
* John Harris
* N. P. Hotchkiss

### Twenty-eighth Election District

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* A. G. Foster
* H. S. Glover
* J. R. Hudson
* William F. Jordan
* T. P. Saffold

### Twenty-ninth Election District

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* D. G. Cotting
* James Knox
* Romulus Moore
* Lewis Pope
* Josiah Sherman

### Thirtieth Election District

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* Amos T. Akerman
* J. Bell
* E. S. Cobb
* J. McWhorter

### Thirty-first Election District

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* William F. Bowers
* S. W. Crawford
* Philip Martin

### Thirty-second Election District

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* Milton Moore
* J. A. Woody

### Thirty-third Election District

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* Madison Bell
* Benjamin Dunnigan
* William L. Marler

### Thirty-fourth Election District

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* J. R. Bracewell
* Shadrick Brown
* S. E. Dailey
* J. Mathews
* B. D. Shumate

### Thirty-fifth Election District

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* Nedom L. Angier
* H. G. Cole
* James L. Dunning
* J. H. Flinn
* David Irwin
* W. C. Lee
* H. V. M. Miller

### Thirty-sixth Election District

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* J. S. Bigby
* J. C. Bowden
* P. W. Chambers
* J. W. Key
* W. C. Smith

### Thirty-seventh Election District

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* John H. Caldwell
* A. H. Harrison
* George Harlan
* E. B. Martin
* Robert Robertson

### Thirty-eighth Election District

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* T. J. Foster
* R. B. Hutcherson
* J. D. Waddell

### Thirty-ninth Election District

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* A. W. Holcombe
* S. T. Houston
* J. G. Lott

### Fortieth Election District

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* John Bryson
* W. T. Crane

### Forty-first Election District

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* C. A. Ellington
* Wilkey McHan

### Forty-second Election District

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* George B. Burnett
* William A. Fort
* W. L. Goodwin
* J. R. Parrott
* Wesley Shropshire

### Forty-third Election District

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* S. E. Fields
* John H. King
* Leander Newton Trammell

### Forty-fourth Election District

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* John M. Shields
* Presley Yates

## See also

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* Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state)
* Original 33

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Dec. 9, 1867: Georgia Constitutional Convention". Zinn Education Project. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
2. ^ a b c Journal of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the people of Georgia : held in the City of Atlanta in the months of December, 1867, and January, February and March, 1868, and ordinances and resolutions adopted / published by order of the Convention. Augusta, Georgia: E. H. Pughe Book & Job Printer, 1868. Accessed January 18, 2023.