80th Georgia General Assembly

The 80th Georgia General Assembly began in Atlanta, Georgia in early 1869. This was the first session after the seat of government was moved from Milledgeville, Georgia following the Georgia Constitution of 1868. A new capitol building had yet to be built so sessions were held in the opera house on Marietta Street rented from H.I. Kimball.

80th Georgia General Assembly
← 79th 81st →
Great Seal of the State of Georgia
Overview
Legislative body	Georgia General Assembly
Meeting place	Kimball Opera House
Term	1868 – 1870
Senate
Members	44
Party control	Republican Party
House of Representatives
Members	153
Party control	Republican Party

The new General Assembly contained 153 House members and 44 Senators. It was the first General Assembly in Georgia history to have African-American members. All of the African-American men were temporarily expelled by the General Assembly by September 1868, and were reinstated by Act of Congress in 1870 shortly before the end of the 1870 session. The 80th Assembly was succeeded by the 81st Assembly, in which Democrats won a majority in both chambers and began to pursue harsh recriminations against Republicans in general and African-Americans in particular.

Members of the Georgia State Senate, 1868–1870

1st	Aaron Alpeoria Bradley.
2d	Tunis G. Campbell, Sr.
3d	E. D. Graham.
4th	J. M. Coleman.
5th	A. Corbitt.
6th	Joshua Griffin.
7th	M. C. Smith.
8th	B. F. Brutton.
9th	R. T. Nisbet.
10th	F. O. Welch.
11th	C. B. Wooten.
12th	C. R. Moore.
13th	William B. Jones.
14th	John J. Collier.
15th	W. T. McArthur.
16th	H. Hicks.
17th	McWhorter Hungerford.
18th	Benjamin Conley.
19th	Joseph Adkins.
20th	George Wallace.
21st	William Griffin.
22d	T. J. Speer.
23d	W. J. Anderson.
24th	B. B. Hinton.
25th	E. J. Higbee.
26th	A. D. Nunnally.
27th	John Harris.
28th	W. F. Jordan.
29th	Josiah Sherman.
30th	J. H. McWhorter.
31st	William F. Bowers.
32d	Jno. C. Richardson.
33d	A. M. Stringer.
34th	Milton A. Candler.
35th	William T. Winn.
36th	W. C. Smith.
37th	W. W. Merrell.
38th	Walker Brock.
39th	A. W. Holcombe.
40th	C. J. Wellborn.
41st	John Dickey.
42d	John T. Burns.
43d	Joel C. Fain[1]
44th	B. R. McCutchen.

Members of the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1868–1870

District	Representative	Party	Residence
Appling	Isham Raddish	Republican
Baker	A. M. George
Baldwin	Peter O'Neal	Republican
Banks	William R. Bell
Bartow	F. M. Ford
Bartow	M. J. Crawford
Berrien	Thomas Paulk
Bibb	Henry McNeal Turner	Republican	Macon
Bibb	J. Fitzpatrick
Bibb	J. E. J. Franks
Brooks	W. A. Lane
Bryan	N. S. Houston	Republican
Bullock	W. M. Hall
Burke	Malcolm Claiborne	Republican
Burke	John Warren	Republican
Burke	John A. Madden
Butts	T. M Harkness
Calhoun	Franklin L. Pepper
Camden	Virgil Hillyer
Campbell	W. S. Zellars
Carroll	John Long
Catoosa	A. S. Fowler
Charlton	F. M. Smith
Chatham	C. K. Osgood
Chatham	James Porter	Republican
Chatham	James M. Sims	Republican
Chattahoochee	W. A. McDougald
Chattooga	C. O. Cleghorn
Cherokee	N. J. Perkins
Clarke	Madison Davis	Republican
Clarke	Alfred Richardson	Republican
Clay	R. A. Tumipseed
Clayton	A. E. Cloud
Clinch	G. Lastinger
Columbia	J. M. Rice
Columbia	Romulus Moore	Republican
Coffee	J. R.Smith
Coweta	F. M. Scroggins
Coweta	P. Sewell
Cobb	W. D. Anderson
Cobb	N. N. Gober
Colquitt	W. W. Watkins
Crawford	W. G. Vinson
Dade	Jas. C. Nisbet
Dawson	Joseph L. Perkins
Decatur	B. F. Powell
Decatur	John Higdon
DeKalb	W. H. Clarke
Dooly	Hiram Williams
Dougherty	Philip Joiner	Republican
Dougherty	A. R. Reed
Early	H. C. Fryer
Echols	R. W. Phillips
Effingham	Morgan Rawls
Elbert	U. 0. Tate
Emanuel	J. A. Brinson
Fannin	Alexander Hearn
Fayette	P. H. Brassel
Floyd	Dunlap Scott
Floyd	M. Ballanger
Forsyth	H. C. Kellogg
Franklin	James A. Harrison
Fulton	E. M. Taliaferro
Fulton	J. E. Gullatt
Fulton	V. P. Sisson
Gilmer	Jas. M. Ellis
Glasscock	J. H. Nunn
Glynn	R.B.Hall
Gordon	R. A. Donaldson
Greene	Robert L. McWhorter	Republican	Woodville
Greene	Abram Colby	Republican
Gwinnett	Louis Nash
Gwinnett	R. M. Parkes
Habersham	W . S. Erwin
Hall	David Whelchel
Hancock	William Henry Harrison	Republican
Hancock	Eli Barnes	Republican
Haralson	W. N. Williams
Hancock	W. H. Harrison
Hart	James Allen
Harris	W. J. Hudson
Harris	Samuel Williams	Republican
Heard	M. Schackleford
Henry	J. A. Maxwell
Houston	J. W. Mathews
Houston	C. C. Duncan
Houston	M. R. Felder
Jackson	A. T. Bennett
Jasper	Thomas M. Allen	Republican
Jefferson	Benjamin Ayre
Jefferson	Alexander Stone	Republican
Johnson	J. W. Meadows
Jones	W. T. McCullough
Laurens	George Linder	Republican
Lee	Samuel Lindsay
Lee	G. Page
Liberty	W. A. Golden	Republican
Lincoln	Piatt Madison
Lowndes	John W. O'Neal
Lumpkin	W. P. Price
Macon	Robert Lumpkin	Republican
Macon	F. H. Fyall	Republican
Madison	J. B. Moon
Marion	William M. Butt
Mcintosh	Tunis Campbell	Republican
Meriwether	P. W. Chambers
Meriwether	W. H. F. Hall
Monroe	W. A. Ballard
Monroe	George H. Clower	Republican
Miller	F. M. D. Hopkins
Milton	G. M. Hook
Mitchell	J. M. Burtz
Montgomery	John J. McArthur
Morgan	A. J. Williams
Morgan	Monday Floyd	Republican
Murray	J. N. Harris
Muscogee	James G. Maull
Muscogee	Abraham Smith	Republican
Newton	A. H. Lee
Newton	John F. Harden
Oglethorpe	James W. Adkins
Oglethorpe	James Cunningham
Paulding	S. F. Strickland
Pickens	S. A. Darnell
Pierce	R. W. Carpenter
Pike	R. A. Seale
Polk	L. H. Walthall
Pulaski	J. M. Buchan
Pulaski	S. F. Saulter
Putnam	S. C. Prudden
Quitman	L. C. A. Warren
Rabun	McKinzey Fincannon
Randolph	W. M. Tumlin
Randolph	David GofF
Richmond	E. Tweedy
Richmond	J. E. Bryant
Richmond	Thomas P. Beard	Republican
Schley	Thomas F. Rainey
Scriven	W. D. Hamilton
Spalding	J. T. Ellis
Stewart	C. C. Humberand
Stewart	J. K. Barnum
Sumter	G. N. Harper
Sumter	John A. Cobb
Talbot	Marion Bethune
Talbot	J. T. Costin	Republican
Taliaferro	W. F. Holden
Tatnall	Robert C. Surrency
Taylor	Frank Wilchar
Terrell	F. M. Harper
Thomas	J. R. Evans
Thomas	W. C. Carson
Towns	George W. Johnson
Troup	J. H. Caldwell
Troup	J. T. McCormick
Twiggs	Haywood Hughes
Union	John H. Penland
Upson	John C. Drake
Walker	W. B. Gray
Walton	John B. Sorrels
Warren	John Neal
Warren	S. G. Gardner	Republican
Ware	Joseph D. Smith
Washington	R. W. Flournoy
Washington	William G. Brown
Wayne	G. W. Rumph
Webster	G. S. Rosser
White	C. H. Kytle
Whitfield	J.E.Shumate
Wilcox	Darling Johnson
Wilkes	Richard Bradford
Wilkes	Edwin Belcher	Republican
Wilkinson	C. H. Hooks
Worth	James M. Rouse

African-American members

This was the first time in Georgia that African-Americans, including former slaves, were voted into office in large numbers.[2]

See also

References

1. Henry Wilkes Jones Ham (1887). Representative Georgians: Biographical Sketches of Men Now in Public Life ... Morning News Print. pp. 222–224.
2. Sanford, Paul Laurence (August 1, 1947). "The negro in the political reconstruction of Georgia, 1866-1872". ETD Collection for AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library. Paper 2110. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)