BLACK, GEORGE ROBISON, (son of Edward Junius Black), a Representative from Georgia;
born on his father's plantation near Jacksonboro, Screven County, Ga., March 24, 1835;
attended the common schools, the University of Georgia at Athens, and the University of South Carolina at Columbia;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Savannah, Ga.;
during the Civil War entered the Confederate service as first lieutenant of the Phoenix Riflemen and afterwards was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-third Georgia Regiment;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872;
member of the State senate 1874-1877;
vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883);
was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress;
died in Sylvania, Screven County, Ga., November 3, 1886;
interment in Sylvania Cemetery.
