biography
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Rainey, Joseph (Hayne)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1832–87)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Georgetown, South Carolina, USA. A barber with little formal education, he was the first elected black US congressman (Democrat, South Carolina, 1871–9), afterwards working as a banker and broker in Washington, DC. |
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