George Wallace was an African-American state senator from Georgia during the Reconstruction Era.

[1] On September 12, 1868, the Georgia State Senate voted to exclude members with mixed heritage.

The Georgia House had already kicked out their African American members.

[1][2][3][4] During the American Civil War, Wallace was reported to have been a body servant for Captain Howard Tinsley, to have been at Appomatox when Robert E. Lee surrendered, and to have ridden General Philip Cook's war-horse "Old Whitey" back to family members of its owner.

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