Jacob Montgomery

Jacob H. Montgomery was a sharecropper and state legislator in North Carolina. He lived in Warrenton, North Carolina.[1]

In 1880 a dissident convention of Warren County Republicans nominated Montgomery to run for a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, but he lost to a candidate nominated by the regular convention.[2] He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883 and was then elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1884.[3] He was African American.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Justesen, Benjamin R. (2009). ""The Class of '83": Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly". The North Carolina Historical Review. 86 (3): 282–308. JSTOR 23523861.
  2. ^ Wellman, Manly Wade (2002). The County of Warren, North Carolina, 1586-1917 (reprint ed.). Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 182–183. ISBN 9780807854723.
  3. ^ Justesen, Benjamin R. (2012). George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life. LSU Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780807144770 – via Google Books.
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