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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 réélection 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.
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...