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Milton Coates was a cotton weigher who served as a state legislator and post office clerk in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885. A Republican, he lived on south Farmer Street in Vicksburg.

He was a defendant in a lawsuit regarding the weighing of cotton by the city of Vicksburg. His appointment as a post office clerk in Vicksburg by Henry Roberts Pease elicited objections because Coates was African American.

See also

• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

1. "Milton Coates – Against All Odds". Archived from the original on 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
2. "51 Miss. 335 (Miss. 1875), Gaines v. Coates". vLex.
3. Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi. E. W. Stephens publishing Company. 1879.
4. Dray, Philip (April 4, 2008). Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0618563708 – via Google Books.

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