| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 269 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03160-1.)
In February 1871 Richard Whiteley, a largely forgotten Georgia Republican, took his seat in the Forty-first Congress. A small, slender man with a thick mustache, Whiteley won reelection in 1872 but suffered defeat in the Democratic resurgence of 1874. The year President Rutherford B. Hayes restored home rule to the South, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he lived the rest of his life.	1
A Scalawag in Georgia by William Warren Rogers Jr., the author of a 1993 biography of the Alabama scalawag Charles Hays, is the story of Whiteley's Reconstruction career. Born in Ireland, Whiteley came to the United States with his Presbyterian family in 1837. At the age of ten he went to work in a cotton mill near Augusta, Georgia. Befriended by the mill owner, the hardworking youth earned advancement, in time becoming a mill owner, a prominent lawyer, and the owner of two slaves. A Douglas Democrat opposed to secession, Whiteley enlisted in the Confederate army after the battle at Fort Sumter and served for the duration of the war. After the surrender at Appomattox, he cooperated with the Freedmen's Bureau, befriended American Missionary Association teachers, joined the Republican party, and won election to Georgia's Reconstruction constitutional convention in 1867.	. . .

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