Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842-1884

found: nuc89-31302: An Address to the people ... [MI] 1876(hdg. on LCP rept.: Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842-1884; usage in cataloger's note: R.B. Elliott)

found: LC data base, 4/25/90(hdg.: Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842-1884; usage: Robert Brown Elliott; R.B. Elliott)

found: African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Elliott, Robert Brown; US representative, political figure; born 11 August 1842 in Liverpool, England; attended a private school in England and was trained as typesetter; was one of at least seventy-one black delegates to the 1868 Constitutional Convention, which drafted the most democratic constitution in South Carolina history; was the only black member of the board of commissioners in Barnwell County; elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives (1868); chair of committee on railroads and appointed to committee on privileges and elections; assistant adjutant general of South Carolina in charge of organizing militia; elected to the US House of Representatives (1870); chair of Republican nominating convention, making sure black candidates were selected for three of four congressional seats, that the candidate for lieutenant governor was black, and that blacks had greater influence in the party (1870); died 09 August 1884 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)