The fall elections in Massachusetts saw the Republicans strengthen their domination of state politics. Governor A.H. Bullock won re-election, taking almost three-quarters of the votes cast. The new state legislature saw forty Republicans and no Democrats in the Senate and a majority of 229 to eleven in the lower house. Elected there were two African-Americans, Edward Garrison Walker and Charles L. Mitchell, a United States Colored Troops veteran with the 55th Massachusetts Regiment. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Massachusetts," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 479.
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