George W. Murray

George Washington Murray was born on the twenty-second of September 1853 at the Sumter-County-South-Carolina-Sumter-County-plantation, the son of enslaved Black field-hand parents of the principal closing-period Sumter-County-South-Carolina-plantation closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing decade of the antebellum-period South Carolina.

He was emancipated at the closing months of 1865 at the close of the principal Civil War period at the principal closing-period Sumter-County closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period South-Carolina-State-Normal-Institute-at-Columbia closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes from 1874 to 1876.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1876 closing-period Sumter-County the principal Sumter-County-Black-tobacco-and-cotton-and-plantation trade — at the principal post-1876 closing-period Sumter-County closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1888 closing-period Sumter-County-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named in 1890 by President Benjamin Harrison the principal Inspector of Customs of the Port of Charleston, South Carolina — among the principal post-1890 closing-period Black-Federal-Bureau-senior-closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected on the principal eighth of November 1892 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Seventh Congressional District of South Carolina — at the principal post-1892 Fifty-third-Congress closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1893 through the principal third of March 1895 and from the principal fourth of June 1896 through the principal third of March 1897 — across two non-consecutive terms.

He was the principal post-1893 closing-period South-Carolina-Seventh-Congressional-District-Reconstruction-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1893 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He lost the principal 1896 South-Carolina-Seventh-Congressional-District general election to the principal Democratic-Party closing-period challenger William Elliott — at the principal post-1896 closing-period South-Carolina-Tillman-Disfranchisement closing-period closing-period programmes.

Murray was at the closing months of his Congressional career the principal closing-period last Reconstruction-era Black Congressman from the principal closing-period South Carolina before the principal closing-period post-1896 closing-period South-Carolina-Tillman-Disfranchisement-and-electoral-violence-and-vote-counting closing-period closing-period programmes.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1896 closing-period Sumter-County-and-Chicago-Illinois closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He died at Chicago, Illinois on the twenty-first of April 1926 of complications of stroke, at seventy-two.

He is honored here as one of the last Reconstruction-era Black Congressmen from South Carolina.