Alonzo Jacob Ransier

Background

Ransier, Alonzo Jacob was born on January 3, 1834 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of free Negroes.

Career

President Southern States Convention, Columbia, 1871. Delegate National.

Achievements

• Alonzo Jacob Ransier has been listed as a noteworthy congressman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member convention of Friends of Equal Rights, Charleston, 1865. Member South Carolina. Constitutional Convention, 1868, 69.

Member United States House of Representatives (Republican) from South Carolina., 43d Congress, 1873-1875.