Draft:Elias Keils

Elias M. Keils was a judge and election supervisor in Eufaula, Alabama. His teenage son William was shot at the Spring Hill polling station his father was supervising as it was stormed in election violence in 1874.

He testified he was born in Alabama.

General Order 75 barred federal officials from intervening to stem election violence. Some accounts of events depicted Elias as a "scalawag" villain.

He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872.

Kiels and his wife moved to Washington D.C. and he was employed in a patronage position in the Ulysses S. Grant administration.