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Amos Tappan Akerman (1821-1880) was a Georgia lawyer who rose to prominence as U.S. attorney general during Reconstruction. After he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842, he went south to teach, first in North Carolina, then in Richmond County, Georgia.
During the Civil War Akerman supported the Confederacy and enlisted in a home-guard unit. He joined the Republican Party after the war and served on the state convention that drew up the Constitution of 1868, with its guarantees of equal political rights for African Americans.
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