Screven County  Georgia Bio  George R. Black

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GEORGE R. BLACK

Honorable George R. Black, of Sylvania, was born in
Scriven County, Ga., March 24, 1835.  His father, the
late Hon. Edward J. Black, and his paternal grand-uncle,
the late Hon. Robert Raymond Reid, were both members of
Congress from Georgia. The subject of this sketch was
educated partly in the University of Georgia, at Athens,
and partly in the South Carolina College, at Columbia.
He read law, and was admitted to the Bar at Savannah in
1857; and practised his profession until the beginning of
the civil war, when, in 1861, he entered the Confederate
Army as First Lieutenant, and, being subsequently
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, served until the close of
the War.  In 1865 he was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention at Milledgeville. He was a
delegate in the National Democratic Convention at
Baltimore, and was, in 1874, elected to the State Senate
for four years.  He is a lawyer in regular practice and
apractical farmer.  He is Vice-President of the
Agricultural Society of the State.  He was a candidate
for nomination by the Congressional Convention in 1878,
and was defeated; but in 1880 he was nominated and
elected, as a Democrat, to the Forty-seventh Congress,
for the First District of Georgia, by 3,447 majority, he
having received 11,712 votes, against 8,265 for Collins,
his Republican opponent.

Ref:  Headley, P. C. PUBLIC MEN OF TODAY, 1882, S. S.
Scranton & Co., Hartford, p. 283.

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