O'Hara, James E. Papers

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O'Hara, James E. Papers

1866-1970

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.OHARA

James E. O'Hara (1844-1905), Lawyer and Republican Congressman, 1883-1887. Contains letters from family and constituents, photographs, a biographical sketch (1970) written by O'Hara's granddaughter, Vera Jean O'Hara Rivers, and memorabilia.

3 linear feet (2 boxes)

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O'Hara, James Edward, 1844-1905

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James Edward O'Hara (February 26, 1844 – September 15, 1905) was an American politician and attorney who in 1882, after Reconstruction, was the second African American to be elected to Congress from North Carolina. He was born in New York City to parents of mixed-race West Indian and Irish ancestry and was raised in the West Indies. As a young man, he traveled to the southern United States after the American Civil War with religious missionaries from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, ...