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Zebulon Elijah (1836 or 1838 - 1910) became a state legislator and government official in Florida after having been enslaved. He was born in
Santa Rosa County, Florida Santa Rosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2020, the population was 188,000. The county seat is Milton, which lies in the geographic center of the county. Other major communities withi ...
. Elijah served in the
Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the C ...
from 1871 to 1873 representing Escambia County. He later became a postmaster in
Pensacola Pensacola ( ) is a city in the Florida panhandle in the United States. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County. The population was 54,312 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Pensacola metropolitan area, which ha ...
from 1874 to 1878 and a tax assessor in Pensacola from 1881 to 1882. He resigned from the legislature after the passage of a Federal law prohibiting federally appointed officials from also holding state or municipal offices. George E. Wentworth also served as postmaster in Pensacola.


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African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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Year of birth uncertain 1910 deaths American former slaves Members of the Florida House of Representatives African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in Florida People from Santa Rosa County, Florida Politicians from Pensacola, Florida Florida postmasters 1830s births 20th-century African-American politicians 19th-century members of the Florida Legislature {{Florida-FLRepresentative-stub