Jefferson Long

March 3, 1836 (age 64)

Knoxville, Georgia, United States of America

He was the first African American from Georgia to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. He was self-educated. He became a merchant tailor in Macon, Georgia. Long was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused when the United States. House declared Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from January 16, 1871 to March 3, 1871. Long was not a candidate for renomination in 1870, but did serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880. He resumed business in Macon, Georgia, and died there on February 4, 1901. He was interred in Lynwood Cemetery. Jefferson F. Long at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Jefferson F. Long at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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Long was born a slave near the city of Knoxville and Crawford County, Georgia on March 3, 1836.

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He was the first African American from Georgia to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. He was self-educated. He became a merchant tailor in Macon, Georgia.

Long was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused when the United States. House declared Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from January 16, 1871 to March 3, 1871.

Long was not a candidate for renomination in 1870, but did serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880. He resumed business in Macon, Georgia, and died there on February 4, 1901.

He was interred in Lynwood Cemetery. Jefferson F. Long at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Jefferson F. Long at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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