Benjamin A. Boseman

Benjamin Antony Boseman Jr. (July 30, 1840 – February 23, 1881) was a doctor and Reconstruction era legislator in South Carolina.[1] He invested in railroad and phosphate mining.[2] As a legislator, he introduced South Carolina's first comprehensive Civil Rights bill in 1870.[3]

The oldest of five children, he grew up in Troy, New York.[4] Boseman studied at Dartmouth Medical School in 1863 and Maine Medical College in 1864.[5]

He served in the Union Army during the Civil War at a recruiting station in Hilton Head, South Carolina examining African American recruits and treating the sick and wounded.[4]

He was appointed as a trustee of the University of South Carolina along with Francis L. Cardozo during the Reconstruction era when Republicans were promoting civil rights and access to the university for African Americans.[6][7] U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him postmaster of Charleston.

Boseman served in South Carolina's state legislature for three consecutive terms from 1868 until 1873.[5] He represented Charleston County.[8]

His photograph was included in a montage of Radical Republicans in South Carolina.[9] He died in Charleston.[5]

References
  1. Southern Black leaders of the Reconstruction era, Howard N. Rabinowitz, University of Illinois Press (1982)
  2. Lincove, David A. (June 8, 2000). "Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography". Greenwood Publishing Group – via Google Books.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=ghkbVSU-b68C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=benjamin+a.+boseman+representative&source=bl&ots=smowLNhDhL&sig=ACfU3U0e8naerdok6eihwGwZf3BLpIDy8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizpP3q8fTpAhVoRzABHZ-lBdAQ6AEwDnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=benjamin%20a.%20boseman%20representative&f=false
  4. Newmark, Jill (April 15, 2013). "Benjamin Anthony Boseman (1840-1881) •".
  5. "Benjamin Antony Boseman, Jr". badahistory.net.
  6. Lesesne, Henry H. (June 8, 2001). "A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000". Univ of South Carolina Press – via Google Books.
  7. West, Elizabeth Cassidy; Allen, Katharine Thompson (October 15, 2015). "On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina". Univ of South Carolina Press – via Google Books.
  8. https://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/post_war/sc_late_1800s_49th_general_assembly_members.html
  9. "Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature" (photograph and description). National Museum of African American History and Culture. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 1868. Retrieved 8 June 2020.CS1 maint: others (link)
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