Alonzo J. Ransier

Alonzo Jacob Ransier was an American politician in South Carolina. He was the states first black Lieutenant Governor and later was a Republican United States Congressman from 1873 until 1875.

Ransier was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina, to possibly parents from Haiti, of mulattoFrench background, with visible European ancestry. He worked as a shipping clerk until he was appointed after the Civil War as state registrar of elections in 1865.

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