F. H. Fyall
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Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the Macon County district | |
In office 1868 – ? Original 33 | |
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Political party | Republican |
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F. H. Fyall was a state Representative in the U.S. stateofGeorgia during the Reconstruction era. He was one of the Original 33 African Americans elected as legislators in Georgia.
He was owned as a slave earlier in his life. His eligibility to hold elected office in Georgia and that of three other elected representatives debated by the legislature when it kicked out 25 African-Americans deemed ineligible to serve.[1] He represented Macon.[2]
Before the American Civil War he was owned by Osborne Augustus Lochrane.
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