![]() ![]() Officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. ![]() Served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872, to January 13,ġ873 and has been adjudged one of the most prominent African-American Republican paper, the New Orleans Louisianian. In the process, Pinchback went into business and acquired control of a Impeachment proceedings were in progress against Henry Clay Warmoth. Pro tempore and as a result he became lieutenant governor when the incumbent diedįrom December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873, he served as acting governor of Louisiana, making him the first person of African descent to serve as governor of any state. ![]() Same year he was also elected to the state senate and was named its president Pinchback organized the Fourth Ward Republican Club and served as a delegate to the convention that established a new constitution for Louisiana in 1868. In 1863, Pinchback resigned from service after racial discrimination over promotion a number of times and settled in Orleans with his family. However, after the war between the states in 1861, Pinchback ran the Confederate blockade on the Mississippi River to reach River Federal-Held New Orleans where he raised a company of black volunteers called the Corps d’Afrique to fight for the North. Sent money to Cincinnati to help support his mother and his siblings. The steamboats plying the Mississippi, Missouri, and Red rivers. ![]() Got a job as a cabin boy on a canal boat and worked his way up to steward on ![]()
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