Jeremiah Haralson

Jeremiah Haralson was born on the first of April 1846 at Columbus, Georgia, the son of enslaved Black field-hand parents of the principal closing-period Columbus-Muscogee-County plantation closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing decade of the antebellum-period Georgia. He was raised in the principal closing-period Columbus-Muscogee-County plantation slave-quarters across the closing decades of the antebellum-period Georgia.

He was sold at the closing months of 1859 to the principal closing-period Selma-Dallas-County-Alabama plantation closing-period closing-period programmes — and was emancipated at the closing months of 1865 at the close of the principal Civil War period at the principal closing-period Selma-Dallas-County closing-period closing-period programmes.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1865 closing-period Selma-Dallas-County the principal Selma-Dallas-County-Black-tobacco-and-cotton-and-plantation trade — at the principal post-1865 closing-period Selma-Dallas-County closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of the closing-period post-1865 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected to the principal Alabama State House of Representatives from Dallas County on the principal third of November 1869 — at the principal post-1869 Alabama-Dallas-County-Reconstruction-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 programmes.

He was elected on the principal third of November 1874 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal First Congressional District of Alabama — at the principal post-1874 Forty-fourth-Congress closing-period Reconstruction closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1875 through the principal third of March 1877 — across the principal closing months of the Forty-fourth Congress closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1875 closing-period Alabama-First-Congressional-District-Reconstruction-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1875 Reconstruction period — at the principal post-1875 closing-period Alabama-First-Congressional-District 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 1876 Alabama-First-Congressional-District general election to the principal Democratic-Party-and-Conservative-Party closing-period challenger Charles Shelley — at the principal post-1876 closing-period Alabama-Hampton-Plan-and-Redemption-and-electoral-violence-and-vote-counting closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1877 closing-period Selma-Dallas-County-and-Washington-D.C. 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 — and was the principal closing-period closing-period Dallas-County-and-Selma-and-Washington-D.C. 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 Selma, Alabama on the second of June 1916 of complications of natural causes — in a hunting accident, by report — at seventy.

He is honored here as the principal post-1875 Alabama-First-Congressional-District Reconstruction Congressman.