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CAIN, Richard Harvey, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Greenbrier County,
Va., April 12, 1825; moved with his father to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831 and
attended school; entered the ministry, and was a pastor in Brooklyn, N.Y., from
1861 to 1865; moved to South Carolina in 1865 and settled in Charleston;
delegate to the constitutional convention of South Carolina in 1868; member of
the State senate 1868-1872; manager of a newspaper in Charleston in 1868;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in
1878; appointed a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880 and
served until his death in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887; interment in
Graceland Cemetery.
Bibliography”Richard Harvey Cain” in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008; Lewis, Ronald L. “Cultural Pluralism and Black
Reconstruction: The Public Career of Richard H. Cain.”
Crisis 85 (February 1978): 57-60.
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