Ransier was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1868. It authorized a public school system for the first time, as well as charitable institutions. Later in 1868, he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, serving to 1869.
After leaving Congress in 1875, Ransier was appointed by Republicans as a collector for the Internal Revenue Service. At his death in 1882, he was working as a street cleaner in Charleston.[2]
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