Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers, 1793 - 1946. Committee Papers of the Committee on Elections from the 54th Congress

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Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers, 1793 - 1946. Committee Papers of the Committee on Elections from the 54th Congress

1895-1897

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/8002612

34 linear feet, 2 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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SNAC Resource ID: 11647895

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Cheatham, Henry Plummer, 1857-1935

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Henry Plummer Cheatham (December 27, 1857 – November 29, 1935) was an educator, farmer and politician, elected as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893 from North Carolina. He was one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South in the Jim Crow era of the last decade of the nineteenth century, as disfranchisement reduced black voting. After that, no African Americans would be elected from the South until 1972 and none from North ...