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Alonzo J. Ransier

1834–1882

United States

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Alonzo Jacob Ransier (January 3, 1834 – August 17, 1882) was an American politician in South Carolina who served as the 54th (and first black) lieutenant governor of South Carolina and later was a United States Congressman from 1873 until 1875. He was a Reconstruction era Republican.

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