# James Ward Porter

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'''James Ward Porter''' was elected a state representative in Georgia during the [Reconstruction era](/source/Reconstruction_era), representing [Chatham County](/source/Chatham_County%2C_Georgia). Before becoming a representative he was the owner of a tailor's shop in [Savannah](/source/Savannah%2C_Georgia). This was unusual, as the laws in Georgia at the time largely prohibited Black people from owning property.<ref name="Drago1982">{{cite book|author=Edmund L. Drago|title=Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXL7t1rVltkC&pg=PA38|year=1982|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1438-9|pages=38–}}</ref>  He and other African Americans were expelled from the legislature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1RHAQAAIAAJ&q=james+porter+chatham&pg=RA3-PA5|title=United States Congressional serial set|date=December 16, 1869|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cvxXAAAAcAAJ&q=james+porter+chatham&pg=RA6-PA62|title=Senate Documents|first=United States|last=Senate|date=December 16, 1871|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Original 33](/source/Original_33)
*[African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900](/source/African_American_officeholders_from_the_end_of_the_Civil_War_until_before_1900)

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Category:African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Category:Original 33
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans
Category:19th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly

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