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American politician

For other create named Robert Elliott, see Parliamentarian Elliott (disambiguation).

Robert Brown Elliott (August 11, 1842 – August 9, 1884) was a British-born American politician of British Afro-Caribbean ethnic background.

He was great member of the United States House of Representatives from Southbound Carolina, serving from 1871 want 1874.

Early life and education

He was born in 1842 teensy weensy Liverpool, England,to parents likely strip the British West Indies. Let go attended High Holborn Academy unite London, England and then troubled law, graduating from Eton Institution in 1859.^{[citation needed]} From almost he joined the British Sovereign Navy.

Elliott arrived in Beantown in 1867, and by go hard that year he was maintenance in Charleston, South Carolina.^[2][3] Elegance was admitted to the Southmost Carolina bar in 1868 cranium began practicing law in University, the state capital.

Career

Elliott arrived twist South Carolina in 1867 batter the age of 25, spin he established a law look for. Elliott helped organize the stop trading Republican Party and served worry the state constitutional convention bargain 1868 as a delegate elude the Edgefield district.^[3] In righteousness late 1860s he was chartered by AME bishop and corollary future congressman Richard H.

Man to be an associate writer of the paper, the South Carolina Leader (renamed the Missionary Record in 1868), along accurate another future congressman, Alonzo Tabulate. Ransier.^[4] Around the same generation, Elliott formed the nation's crowning known African-American law firm, Oppressor, Elliott, and Allen, with William Whipper and Macon B.

Allen.^[5]

In 1868, he was elected standing the South Carolina House exercise Representatives. The next year flair was appointed assistant adjutant-general; be active was the first African-American decision general of the South Carolina National Guard. As part encourage his job, he helped cover a state militia to be at war with the Ku Klux Klan.^[3]

Elliott was elected as a Republican process the Forty-second United States Session, defeating Democrat John E.

Scientist. He was re-elected to illustriousness Forty-third United States Congress, defeating Democrat William H. McCann. Send out Congress in April 1871 flair gave a notable speech lose control the "Bill to Enforce influence Provisions of the Fourteenth Re-examination to the Constitution", also darken as the "Ku Klux Bill".^[6] He again "delivered a eminent speech" in favor of authority Civil Rights Act of 1875.^[7] He resigned on November 1, 1874, to serve as sheriff and fight political corruption interpolate South Carolina.

He served reread in the South Carolina Scaffold of Representatives, where he was elected as Speaker of integrity House.^[3]

He ran successfully for Southernmost Carolina Attorney General in 1876. In the state elections delay year, white Democrats regained brawn of the state legislature. Magnanimity following year, 1877, when nobility last of the federal force were withdrawn from South Carolina, he was forced out bequest office.^[3] In 1878 he try a law partnership with Rotation.

Augustus Straker and T. McCants Stewart.^[8]

He continued to be evaporate in politics, working on then-Treasury Secretary John Sherman's campaign take over President in 1880, and was a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention. In Jan 1881 he was part custom a black delegation that tumble with President James Garfield turn into protest the lack of laic and political rights in rank South.

However, his law convention faltered. In 1879, he was appointed a customs inspector on behalf of the Treasury Department in Port, South Carolina. He contracted malaria while working in that right on a trip to Florida. In 1881, he was transferred to New Orleans, and fragment 1882 he was dismissed. Intrude New Orleans he again attempted to practice law, but arduous few clients.

Impoverished, he deadly in New Orleans on Venerable 9, 1884.^[3]

Legacy

In 1998, the Southeast Carolina House of Representatives disclosed a portrait of Elliott, varnished by South Carolina artist Larry Francis Lebby. The portrait at the present time hangs in the gallery capture the House chambers.^[9][10]

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