title: Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868
text: # Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868
  
  The 1867–1868 Georgia State Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of constructing a constitution for the state following the end of the American Civil War. Held in Atlanta, the convention started on December 9, 1867 and ran through March 1868.
  
  Its delegates included 137 white men and 33 African American men. It was the first constitutional convention to involve the participation of African-American delegates. It created a new constitution for Georgia that included suffrage for African-American males; this was a mandate of the congressional Reconstruction Acts.
  
  ## Delegates
  
  Delegates to the convention were elected by district. Its members included the following:
  
  ### First Election District
  
  * M. H. Bentley
  * Aaron Alpeoria Bradley
  * Walter L. Clift
  * A. L. Harris
  * C. H. Hopkins
  * W. H. D. Reynolds
  * Isaac Seeley
  * James Stewart
  
  ### Second Election District
  
  * Tunis G. Campbell
  * William A. Goulding
  
  ### Third Election District
  
  * A. M. Moore
  
  ### Fourth Election District
  
  * F. M. Smith
  
  ### Fifth Election District
  
  * P. B. Bedford
  
  ### Sixth Election District
  
  * Levi J. Knight
  * Lewis H. Roberts
  
  ### Seventh Election District
  
  * W. C. Carson
  * J. L. Cutler
  * M. C. Smith
  
  ### Eighth Election District
  
  * John Higden
  * B. F. Powell
  * Richard H. Whiteley
  
  ### Ninth Election District
  
  * H. H. Christian
  * William W. Dews
  * Charles C. Martin
  
  ### Tenth Election District
  
  * Philip Joiner
  * John Murphy
  * Benjamin Sikes
  * F. O. Welch
  
  ### Eleventh Election District
  
  * Robert Alexander
  * J. A. Jackson
  * W. H. Noble
  * John Whitaker
  
  ### Twelfth Election District
  
  * J. E. Blount
  * G. W. Chatters
  * Thomas Crayton
  
  ### Thirteenth Election District)
  
  * Jesse Dinkins
  * J. E. Hall
  * Robert Lumpkin
  * H. K. McCoy
  * F. Snead
  
  ### Fourteenth Election District
  
  * J. M. Buchan
  * S. F. Salter
  * Simeon Stanley
  * J. W. Trawick
  
  ### Fifteenth Election District
  
  * A. J. Cameron
  
  ### Sixteenth Election District
  
  * E. W. Lane
  * George Linder
  
  ### Seventeenth Election District
  
  * Malcolm Claiborne
  * H. H. Glisson
  * J. A. Madden
  * J. M. Rice
  * Robert Whitehead
  
  ### Eighteenth Election District
  
  * Simeon Beard
  * Foster Blodgett
  * J. E. Bryant
  * Rufus B. Bullock
  * Benjamin Conley
  * John Neal
  * Alexander Stone
  
  ### Nineteenth Election District
  
  * Joseph Adkins
  * D. P. Baldwin
  * John W. T. Catchings
  * Robert Crumbley
  * Henry Strickland
  
  ### Twentieth Election District
  
  * William Henry Harrison
  * Daniel Palmer
  * Charles H. Prince
  * C. C. Richardson
  * W. C. Supple
  * George Wallace
  
  ### Twenty-first Election District
  
  * Thomas Gibson
  * Samuel Gove
  * William Griffin
  * Charles Hooks
  
  ### Twenty-second Election District
  
  * F. Wooten
  * A. Bowdoin
  * M. Cooper
  * W. J. Howe
  * M. A. Potts
  * T. J. Speer
  * Henry McNeal Turner
  * G. G. Wilbur
  
  ### Twenty-third Election District
  
  * J. H. Anderson
  * S. A. Cobb
  * William P. Edwards
  * Posey Maddox
  * O. H. Walton
  
  ### Twenty-fourth Election District
  
  * George W. Ashburn
  * J. C. Casey
  * Thomas Gilbert
  * Van Jones
  * J. G. Maul
  
  ### Twenty-fifth Election District
  
  * T. J. Costin
  * William Guilford
  * E. J. Higbee
  * L. L. Stanford
  * Samuel Williams
  
  ### Twenty-sixth Election District
  
  * S. T. W. Minor
  * W. H. Rozar
  * W. H. Whitehead
  
  ### Twenty-seventh Election District
  
  * James C. Barton
  * J. W. Christian
  * C. D. Davis
  * John Harris
  * N. P. Hotchkiss
  
  ### Twenty-eighth Election District
  
  * A. G. Foster
  * H. S. Glover
  * J. R. Hudson
  * William F. Jordan
  * T. P. Saffold
  
  ### Twenty-ninth Election District
  
  * D. G. Cotting
  * James Knox
  * Romulus Moore
  * Lewis Pope
  * Josiah Sherman
  
  ### Thirtieth Election District
  
  * Amos T. Akerman
  * J. Bell
  * E. S. Cobb
  * J. McWhorter
  
  ### Thirty-first Election District
  
  * William F. Bowers
  * S. W. Crawford
  * Philip Martin
  
  ### Thirty-second Election District
  
  * Milton Moore
  * J. A. Woody
  
  ### Thirty-third Election District
  
  * Madison Bell
  * Benjamin Dunnigan
  * William L. Marler
  
  ### Thirty-fourth Election District
  
  * J. R. Bracewell
  * Shadrick Brown
  * S. E. Dailey
  * J. Mathews
  * B. D. Shumate
  
  ### Thirty-fifth Election District
  
  * Nedom L. Angier
  * H. G. Cole
  * James L. Dunning
  * J. H. Flinn
  * David Irwin
  * W. C. Lee
  * H. V. M. Miller
  
  ### Thirty-sixth Election District
  
  * J. S. Bigby
  * J. C. Bowden
  * P. W. Chambers
  * J. W. Key
  * W. C. Smith
  
  ### Thirty-seventh Election District
  
  * John H. Caldwell
  * A. H. Harrison
  * George Harlan
  * E. B. Martin
  * Robert Robertson
  
  ### Thirty-eighth Election District
  
  * T. J. Foster
  * R. B. Hutcherson
  * J. D. Waddell
  
  ### Thirty-ninth Election District
  
  * A. W. Holcombe
  * S. T. Houston
  * J. G. Lott
  
  ### Fortieth Election District
  
  * John Bryson
  * W. T. Crane
  
  ### Forty-first Election District
  
  * C. A. Ellington
  * Wilkey McHan
  
  ### Forty-second Election District
  
  * George B. Burnett
  * William A. Fort
  * W. L. Goodwin
  * J. R. Parrott
  * Wesley Shropshire
  
  ### Forty-third Election District
  
  * S. E. Fields
  * John H. King
  * Leander Newton Trammell
  
  ### Forty-fourth Election District
  
  * John M. Shields
  * Presley Yates
  