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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJefferson Franklin LONG
(1836-1901)
LONG, Jefferson Franklin,
a Representative from Georgia; born a slave near Knoxville,
Crawford County, Ga., March 3, 1836; self-educated; became a
merchant tailor in Macon, Ga.; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House
declaring Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat on December 22,
1870; served from January 16, 1871 to March 3, 1871; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1870; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1880; resumed business in Macon, Ga., and
died there February 4, 1901; interment in Lynwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
”Jefferson Franklin Long” in Black Americans in
Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008; Matthews, John M.
“Jefferson Franklin Long: The Public Career of
Georgia’s First Black Congressman.” Phylon 42
(June 1981): 145-56.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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