Alonzo Jacob Ransier (3 January 1834-17 August 1882) was the Republican Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 3 December 1870 to 7 December 1872 (succeeding Lemuel Boozer and preceding Richard Howell Gleaves) and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 2) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875 (succeeding Robert C. De Large and preceding Edmund W.M. Mackey).
Biography[]
Alonzo Jacob Ransier was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1834 to a free African-American family of Haitian and European ancestry. He worked as a shipping clerk before the American Civil War, after which he served as a registrar of elections, as an associate editor of the South Carolina Leader, in the State House from 1868 to 1870, as Lieutenant Governor from 1870 to 1872, and in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1875. He went on to serve as an IRS revenue collector and ultimately as a street cleaner in his hometown, where he died in 1882 at the age of 48.