Episode 2 of 2
Seating of Georgia Representatives
- When
- 24 February 1871
- Where
- Congress
Georgia's representatives were seated in Congress on February 24, 1871, ensuring all former Confederate states were represented.
After Georgia's readmission, its senators and representatives were seated in Congress on February 24, 1871. This event finalized the political representation of all former Confederate states in the federal legislature, following the earlier readmission of other Southern states.
Sources
- Reconstruction era Wikipedia
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.