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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaJames Thomas RAPIER
(1837-1883)
RAPIER, James Thomas, a
Representative from Alabama; born a free black in Florence,
Lauderdale County, Ala., November 13, 1837; educated by private
tutors in Alabama and studied in Canada; studied law and was
admitted to the bar; taught school; returned to the South and
traveled as a correspondent for a northern newspaper; became a
cotton planter in Alabama in 1865; appointed a notary public by the
Governor of Alabama in 1866; member of the first Republican
convention held in Alabama and was one of the committee that framed
the platform; member of the State constitutional convention at
Montgomery in 1867; unsuccessful candidate for secretary of state
in 1870; appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1871; appointed
State commissioner to the Vienna Exposition by the Governor of
Alabama in 1873; commissioner on the part of the United States to
the World’s Fair in Paris; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;
appointed collector of internal revenue for the second district of
Alabama on August 8, 1878, and served until his death in
Montgomery, Ala., May 31, 1883; interment in Calvary Cemetery, St.
Louis, Mo.
Bibliography
”James Thomas Rapier” 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; Schweninger, Loren. James T.
Rapier and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1978.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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