James Thomas Rapier

Lawyer and statesman James T. Rapier, a son of free African-American parents in Florence, holds the distinction of being just the second African-American from Alabama to be elected, in 1873, to the U.S. Congress.

Inducted 2007

City of Florence Walk of Honor

Marker is on Hightower Pl..

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