Draft:Elias Keils
Elias M. Keils was a judge and election supervisor in Eufaula, Alabama. His teenage son William was shot at the Spring Hill polling station his father was supervising as it was stormed in election violence in 1874.[1][2][3]
He testified he was born in Alabama.[4]
General Order 75 barred federal officials from intervening to stem election violence.[1] Some accounts of events depicted Elias as a "scalawag" villain.[5][6]
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872.[7]
Kiels and his wife moved to Washington D.C. and he was employed in a patronage position in the Ulysses S. Grant administration.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bailey, Richard (August 22, 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588381897 – via Google Books.
- ^ Congress, United States (August 22, 1875). "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ Barber, William E. (August 22, 1847). "Address Delivered Before the Alumni Association of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., September 14, 1847". Published for the Association – via Google Books.
- ^ Representatives, USA Congress House of (August 22, 1875). "House Documents". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Alabama Lawyer: Official Organ State Bar of Alabama". The Bar. August 22, 1962 – via Google Books.
- ^ Alston, Robert Cotten (August 22, 1931). "Reconstruction in Alabama". The Symposium – via Google Books.
- ^ "Proceedings of the National Union Republican Convention Held at ..." August 22, 1903 – via Google Books.
- ^ Carter, Dan T. (February 1, 2000). The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807125977 – via Google Books.
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