Philip Joiner

Philip Joiner
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the Dougherty County district
In office 1868 – 1868 Original 33
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the Dougherty County district
In office 1870–?
Personal details
Political party	Republican

Philip Joiner was a delegate to the 1867 constitutional convention in Georgia

in 1868. He and other African Americans were prohibited from taking office by their colleagues in the Georgia Assembly. Federal intervention in 1870 overruled the discriminatory exclusion, and Joiner would win re-election to a second term in office.

A month after being barred from taking office he was a leader of a march from Albany, Georgia to

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