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INTIMIDATION AND FRAUD WERE USED BY HIS OPPONENT TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS, BUT THE LAWYER WOULD NOT BACK DOWN.


He contested the election. After an 18-month investigation, the congressional committee declared him the rightful congressman from Virginia’s 4th district. John Mercer Langston was sworn in September 23, 1890, but the victory was short-lived. Langston served the remaining six months of his term in Congress. It would be over one hundred years until another African American represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. Congress.


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