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Benjamin A. Boseman

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  • Comment: When was he a legislator? From what district? What were the election results? DGG ( talk ) 01:18, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
I was able to answer 2/3 of your questions. I haven't seen a source with election results from this era. FloridaArmy (talk) 02:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Benjamin Boseman and Benjamin Anthony Boseman should redirect here

Benjamin Anthony Boseman, Jr. (July 30, 1840 - February 23, 1881) was a doctor and Reconstruction era legislator in South Carolina.[1] He invested in railroad and phosphate mining.[2]

The oldest of five children he grew up in Troy, New York.[3] Boseman studied at Dartmouth Medical School in 1863 and Maine Medical College in 1864.[4]

He served in the Union Army during the Civil War at a recruiting station in Hilton Head, South Carolina examining African American recruits and treating the sick and wounded.[3]

He was appointed as a trustee of the University of South Carolina along with Francis L. Cardozo during the Reconstruction era when Republicans were promoting civil rights and access to the university for African Americans.[5][6]

Boseman served in South Carolina's state legislature for three consecutive terms from 1868 until 1873.[4] He represented Charleston County.[7]

His photograph was included in a montage "Radical Republicans" in South Carolina.[8] He died in Charleston.[4]

References

  1. ^ Southern Black leaders of the Reconstruction era, Howard N. Rabinowitz, University of Illinois Press (1982)
  2. ^ Lincove, David A. (June 8, 2000). "Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography". Greenwood Publishing Group – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Newmark, Jill (April 15, 2013). "Benjamin Anthony Boseman (1840-1881) •".
  4. ^ a b c "Benjamin Antony Boseman, Jr". badahistory.net.
  5. ^ Lesesne, Henry H. (June 8, 2001). "A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000". Univ of South Carolina Press – via Google Books.
  6. ^ West, Elizabeth Cassidy; Allen, Katharine Thompson (October 15, 2015). "On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina". Univ of South Carolina Press – via Google Books.
  7. ^ https://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/post_war/sc_late_1800s_49th_general_assembly_members.html
  8. ^ "Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature" (photograph and description). National Museum of African American History and Culture. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 1868. Retrieved 8 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)