George Kelso

George Young Kelso was an American politician. He was delegate at Louisiana’s 1868 constitutional convention and state senator in Louisiana from 1868 to 1876. He was a “colored”, “radical” Republican.

Biography

George Young Kelso lived in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. He gave a statement about voter suppression in 1872. He attended an 1873 "colored convention" in Louisiana. He was part of a Republican parish convention.

Eric Foner documented him as an editor and co-owner of the Louisianan newspaper in New Orleans and as an employee of the custom house in New Orleans who faced the violence during the 1876 election campaign.

See also

African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

Year of birth missing

Year of death missing

Republican Party Louisiana state senators

African-American state legislators in Louisiana

African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era

People from Rapides Parish, Louisiana

19th-century American newspaper editors

Editors of Louisiana newspapers