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Led by Alexander H. H. Stuart , a former U.S. Presidential Cabinet officer, the group of moderate Republicans convinced the federal government to allow Virginians to vote on an alternative draft of a new state constitution which did not disenfranchise many white Virginians under the Reconstruction Acts. Once this constitution was passed, the United States Congress permitted the readmission of that state into the Union as of January 26 , 1870 . COMMITTEE MEMBERS FURTHER READING
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