[1] Compiled by Monroe N. Work. [2] Beverly, _History of Alabama_, 202, 208. [3] Not returned for the 1875-1876 session. [4] Beverly, _History of Alabama_, pp. 202-208. [5] Served only in the session of 1874-1875. [6] Served only in the session of 1875-1876. [7] Alexander is said to have been counted out. He is said to have held the position of postmaster at Madison and also to have had a deputy reserve collector. [8] Lewis and Scott were the last Negro members of the Florida Legislature. [9] Lewis and Scott were the last Negro members of the Florida Legislature. [10] Letter on October 11, 1916, from L. L. Knight, official compiler of Georgia Records; Thompson, _Reconstruction in Georgia_, pp. 211-214, 262, 264. [11] The names of these four were later stricken out. They were so nearly white that their race was indeterminate. They remained in the house after the others were expelled.--Thompson, _Reconstruction in Georgia_, p. 213; House Journal Georgia Legislature, p. 229. [12] Letter on October 11, 1916, from L.L. Knight, official compiler of Georgia Records. [13] Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915. [14] North Carolina Manual, by North Carolina Historical Commission, 1913, pp. 863-906. [15] _Ibid._, pp. 481-862. [16] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 76-79. [17] In 1895 South Carolina again revised her constitution. In the convention held for this purpose there were found Negro delegates, viz.: Thomas E. Miller, L. R. Reed, Robert Smalls, W. J. Whipper and James Wigg, all from Beaufort County. Smalls and Whipper had been delegates in the 1868 convention. (Reported by H. H. Wallace.) [18] Furnished by Mr. H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period. [19] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 106-107, 394-396. [20] Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period. [21] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 107-108, 394-396. [22] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 106-108. [23] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 394-396. [24] Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period. [25] _Ibid._ [26] _Ibid._ [27] George H. White, North Carolina, member of 55th and 56th Congresses, as the last Negro member. (Editor.) [28] He was a page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period. [29] There were no colored members of the Tennessee Senate. [30] Contested, not seated. [31] 1868, 1870, see North Carolina list, Pasquotank County. JAMES G. THOMPSON, THE ORIGINAL CARPETBAGGER[1]