Alexander Stone
{{short description|U.S politician during the Reconstruction Era}}
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Alexander Stone was a member of Georgia's constitutional convention held in 1867 and 1868{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4csAAAAYAAJ&q=%22alexander+stone%22+georgia+assembly&pg=PA47|title=Constitution, Ordinances and Resolutions of the Georgia Convention: Assembled in Pursuance of the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and Held, by Order of General Pope, in the City of Atlanta, in 1867 and 1868 ...|date=18 March 1868|publisher=New Era Office|via=Google Books}} and was an elected member of the Georgia Legislature in 1868. He was a Republican.
Biography
Stone and 25 of 29 African Americans elected during the post-American Civil War Reconstruction Era were prohibited from taking office by their white colleagues.{{cn|date=March 2018}} Stone was elected to represent Jefferson County, Georgia.{{cite book|title=Can a Negro Hold Office in Georgia?|author1=Georgia. Supreme Court|author2=White, R.W.|author3=Clements, W.J.|author4=Davis, E.|date=1869|publisher=Daily Intelligence Book and Job Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkMuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA132|page=132|accessdate=2018-03-18}} After federal intervention, African Americans were able to hold office following the 1870 election in Georgia.{{cn|date=March 2018}} But Ku Klux Klan activity, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and voter intimidation intensified as the Reconstruction era ended.{{cn|date=March 2018}}
Stone was accused of graft while in office, but was cleared of charges he was bribed to oppose Reconstruction measures.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXL7t1rVltkC&q=%22alexander+stone%22+georgia+assembly&pg=PA68|page=68|title=Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure|first=Edmund L.|last=Drago|date=18 March 1982|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820314389|via=Google Books}}
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Category:African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:People from Jefferson County, Georgia
Category:African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans
Category:19th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly
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