Abram Colby was an American minister and politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.
Colby and minister Henry McNeal Turner worked together to form a chapter of the American Equal Rights Association.
[3] They were Colby and a former Confederate Major, moderate republican Robert McWhorter, who went on to serve as Speaker of the House.
[3] Unable to defeat Colby at the polls, and failing in their attempts to intimidate black voters, Greene County Democrats and local merchants offered Colby $5,000 to switch to the Democratic party, or $2,500 to simply resign his seat in the Legislature.
[5] His injuries were so extensive Colby was recorded saying in his testimony during the Joint Select Committee Report: "They broke something inside of me, and the doctor has been attending to me for more than a year.