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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaGeorge Robison BLACK
(1835-1886)
BLACK, George Robison,
(son of Edward Junius Black), a Representative from Georgia; born
on his father’s plantation near Jacksonboro, Screven County,
Ga., March 24, 1835; attended the common schools, the University of
Georgia at Athens, and the University of South Carolina at
Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and
commenced practice in Savannah, Ga.; during the Civil War entered
the Confederate service as first lieutenant of the Phoenix Riflemen
and afterwards was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the
Sixty-third Georgia Regiment; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1865; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1872; member of the State senate 1874-1877; vice president of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society; elected as a Democrat to
the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was an
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth
Congress; died in Sylvania, Screven County, Ga., November 3, 1886;
interment in Sylvania Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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