Search Results
6/22/2025, 3:13:23 AM
>>17782327
>Rufus Bullock was the first Republican to be elected to Georgia’s highest political office, serving as governor from 1868 to 1871
>the most hated man in the state during Reconstruction, was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan
>When the war ended, Bullock entered politics, played a prominent role at the constitutional convention in December 1867, and won the election in April 1868 for governor over the Democratic favorite, John B. Gordon, a former Confederate general who was soon to become the head of the Ku Klux Klan
>Bullock was accused with selling governor pardons, massive escalation in state debt, bribing the press, nepotism, mismanagement of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and emptying blacks out of public prisons to use them as slave labor for railroad construction.
>He defended himself against the accusations, arguing that Georgia had not adhered to the Reconstruction laws established by Congress
>Facing mounting charges and declining support, Bullock resigned from office in 1871 and fled the state.
>Rufus Bullock was the first Republican to be elected to Georgia’s highest political office, serving as governor from 1868 to 1871
>the most hated man in the state during Reconstruction, was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan
>When the war ended, Bullock entered politics, played a prominent role at the constitutional convention in December 1867, and won the election in April 1868 for governor over the Democratic favorite, John B. Gordon, a former Confederate general who was soon to become the head of the Ku Klux Klan
>Bullock was accused with selling governor pardons, massive escalation in state debt, bribing the press, nepotism, mismanagement of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and emptying blacks out of public prisons to use them as slave labor for railroad construction.
>He defended himself against the accusations, arguing that Georgia had not adhered to the Reconstruction laws established by Congress
>Facing mounting charges and declining support, Bullock resigned from office in 1871 and fled the state.
Page 1