Robert C. De Large

Robert Carlos De Large was born on the fifteenth of March 1842 at Aiken, South Carolina, the son of an Free-Black-Aiken-South-Carolina tailoring household of the closing decade of the antebellum period. He was raised in the principal Free-Black-Aiken-South-Carolina household of his parents across the closing decades of the antebellum-period South Carolina.

He was placed at the principal Wood High School at Charleston, South Carolina — among the principal Free-Black-Charleston-South-Carolina secondary schools of the closing years of the antebellum period.

He served the principal closing-period Charleston Confederate Army Construction Brigade from 1861 to 1865 as a labourer at the principal closing-period Charleston Confederate-Army-Construction closing-period programmes of the closing months of the Confederate-Charleston closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took employment at the principal closing-period post-1865 Charleston Freedmen’s Bureau as a senior agent for the closing-period post-1865 Freedmen’s Bureau Charleston-area closing-period closing-period programmes — and rose at the closing months of 1866 to the principal Freedmen’s Bureau Charleston-Land-Office senior closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected to the principal South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 — at the principal post-1868 South Carolina-Reconstruction constitutional convention closing-period programmes — and to the principal South Carolina State Senate from Charleston County on the principal third of November 1868.

He was elected on the principal twenty-second of November 1870 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Second Congressional District of South Carolina — at the principal post-1870 Forty-second-Congress closing-period Reconstruction closing-period programmes.

He was seated at the principal fourth of March 1871 at the principal United States House of Representatives — at the principal post-1870 closing-period House-Confederate-credentials closing-period programmes — at the principal closing months of the principal Forty-second Congress.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal post-1871 fourth of March 1871 to the principal twenty-fourth of January 1873 — at the principal closing months of the principal Forty-second Congress.

The De Large 1872 South Carolina-Second-Congressional-District general election was contested by the principal Democratic-Party-and-Conservative-Party closing-period challenger Christopher Columbus Bowen — at the principal post-1872 closing-period South Carolina-Second-Congressional-District closing-period electoral-violence-and-vote-counting closing-period programmes.

The House Committee on Elections of the closing months of the principal post-1872 Forty-second Congress closing-period programmes voted on the principal twenty-fourth of January 1873 to vacate the principal post-1870 De Large seat — under the principal closing-period closing-period closing-period rules-of-evidence-and-vote-counting closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of the principal Forty-second Congress closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1873 closing-period Magistrate of the Charleston-Magistrate’s-Court at the principal closing months of 1873 — at the principal post-1873 closing-period Magistrate-of-the-Charleston-Magistrate’s-Court closing-period programmes.

He died at Charleston, South Carolina on the fourteenth of February 1874 of complications of tuberculosis, at thirty-one.

He is honored here as a Reconstruction Congressman of the Second District of South Carolina.