"America will not die. As the time demands them, great men will appear, and by their combined efforts render liberty and happiness more secure. The people will be ready and answer in every emergency that may arise."
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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesSoldiersAfrican AmericansRepublican Party (United States) politiciansPeople from Louisiana
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As quoted in Congressional Record, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): p. 3,669
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Charles E. Nash
Charles Edmund Nash (23 May 1844 – 21 June 1913) was an American politician who served a single two-year term as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was Louisiana's first African American Congressman and would remain the state's only black U.S. Representative for more than 100 years, until 1991.
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