George H. Clower

George H. Clower was a legislator and schoolteacher in Central Georgia during the Reconstruction era. He was one of two African-Americans elected from Central Georgia to Georgia's legislature during that period.[1][2]

Clower was a Republican Party organizer of "Grant clubs" in support of former Union Army commanding general Ulysses S. Grant in his presidential candidacy. Several of Clower's letters appealing for support for his African American Community from the Freedmen Bureau and appealing to Grant himself[3] survive.

References

Reidy, Joseph P. (9 November 2000). "From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880". Univ of North Carolina Press – via Google Books.
Grant, Donald Lee (21 March 1993). "The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia". University of Georgia Press – via Google Books.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson (21 March 2018). "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: February 1-December 31, 1872". SIU Press – via Google Books.

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[1] Reidy, Joseph P. (9 November 2000). "From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880". Univ of North Carolina Press – via Google Books.

[2] Grant, Donald Lee (21 March 1993). "The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia". University of Georgia Press – via Google Books.

[3] Grant, Ulysses Simpson (21 March 2018). "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: February 1-December 31, 1872". SIU Press – via Google Books.