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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Georgia LONG, Jefferson Franklin(1836—1901)LONG, Jefferson Franklin, a Representative from Georgia; born a slave near Knoxville, Crawford County, Ga., March 3, 1836; self-educated; became a merchant tailor in Macon, Ga.; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871; was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880; resumed business in Macon, Ga., and died there February 4, 1901; interment in Lynwood Cemetery. ”Jefferson Franklin Long” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 . Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. Logan, Rayford W. “Long, Jefferson Franklin.” In Dictionary of American Negro Biography, edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, pp. 405. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982. Matthews, John M. “Jefferson Franklin Long: The Public Career of Georgia’s First Black Congressman.” Phylon 42 (June 1981): 145-56. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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