R.B.Elliot, born in Boston and educated in England, settled in South Carolina from which he was sent to Congress.
John M.Langston was taken to Ohio and educated but came back to Virginia his native State from which he was elected to Congress.

J.T.White left Indiana to enter politics in Arkansas, becoming State Senator and later commissioner of public works and internal improvements.

Judge Mifflin Wister Gibbs, a native of Philadelphia, purposely settled in Arkansas where he served as city judge and Register of United States Land Office.
T.Morris Chester, of Pittsburgh, finally made his way to Louisiana where he served with distinction as a lawyer and held the position of Brigadier-General in charge of the Louisiana State Guards under the Kellogg government.

Joseph Carter Corbin, who was taken from Virginia to be educated at Chillicothe, Ohio, went later to Arkansas where he served as chief clerk in the post office at Little Rock and later as State Superintendent of Schools.

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who moved north for education and opportunity, returned to enter politics in Louisiana, which honored him with several important positions among which was that of Acting Governor.
[Footnote 1: This is well treated in John Eaton's _Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen_.