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Jeremiah Haralson of Alabama, 1865-1880. Hon. Jeremiah Haralson of Ala. Killed by wild beasts near Denver, Col. 1916, between 1865 and 1880. [Politician, born into slavery: self-educated; one of the first ten African-American Congressmen elected in the United States; worked at the Department of the Interior and the Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C. No corroborating evidence has been found for the rumour that he was killed by wild animals while hunting].