James T. Elliott - Wikipedia
Reconstruction, KKK murder, call to Congress. During Reconstruction, the U.S. Representative James M. Hinds was assassinated on October 22, 1868, by George A. Clark, a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the secretary of the Democratic Committee of Monroe County, Arkansas.. Elliott was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy. He served only from January 13 to March 3, …