Thomas E. Miller
African-American educator, lawyer, and politician (Republican; 1849-1938) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 88
Thomas Ezekiel Miller was an American educator, lawyer and politician. After being elected as a state legislator in South Carolina, he was one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South in the Jim Crow era of the last decade of the nineteenth century, as disfranchisement reduced black voting.
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After that, no African Americans were elected from the South until 1972.
Country
United States
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1849 to 1938 · aged 88
