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RANSIER, Alonzo Jacob, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., January 3, 1834; received a limited schooling; employed as shipping clerk in 1850; member of a convention of the Friends of Equal Rights at Charleston in 1865 and was deputed to present the memorial there framed to Congress; member, State house of representatives, 1868-1869; member of the State constitutional convention in 1868 and 1869; Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1870; president of the Southern States Convention at Columbia in 1871; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); United States internal-revenue collector for the second district of South Carolina in 1875 and 1876; died in Charleston, S.C., on August 17, 1882; interment in Unity Friendship Cemetery.