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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South Carolina CAIN, Richard Harvey(1825—1887)CAIN, Richard Harvey, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Greenbrier County, Va., April 12, 1825; moved with his father to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831 and attended school; entered the ministry, and was a pastor in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1861 to 1865; moved to South Carolina in 1865 and settled in Charleston; delegate to the constitutional convention of South Carolina in 1868; member of the State senate 1868-1872; manager of a newspaper in Charleston in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; appointed a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887; interment in Graceland Cemetery. Lewis, Ronald L. “Cultural Pluralism and Black Reconstruction: The Public Career of Richard H. Cain.” Crisis 85 (February 1978): 57-60. Mann, Kenneth E. “Richard Harvey Cain, Congressman, Minister and Champion For Civil Rights.” Negro History Bulletin 35 (March 1972): 64-66. ”Richard Harvey Cain” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 . Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1990. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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