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Nathan E. Edwards (1855 - 1908)

Nathan E. Edwards (1855 - 1908) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Chicot County as a Republican for the 1893 session. He was one of at least four African Americans in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1893 along with George W. Bell in the state senate. He and other Arkansas legislators were photographed in 1893.

He worked as a farmer, farm laborer, and minister before and after his legislative service. He was a pastor in Eudora a First Baptist Church. He died 1908.

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References

  1. ^ "Arkansas History". The Lakeport Plantation.
  2. "Southeast Arkansas's African-American Legislators, 1868-1893". The Lakeport Plantation. February 17, 2016.
  3. "The legislature - A roster of te general assembly of 1893". Daily Arkansas Gazette. 17 September 1892. p. 5. Retrieved 13 February 2021.Open access icon
  4. Justesen, Benjamin R. (16 December 2020). Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807174623 – via Google Books.
  5. "Once a lawmaker, Now he shines shoes of lawmakers". Daily Arkansas Gazette. 19 February 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 13 February 2021.Open access icon
  6. "1893 House of Representatives composite photo of the Twenty-Ninth General Assembly of the State of Arkansas". Arkansas General Assembly Composite Images, 1866-2011. December 31, 1893.
  7. ^ Plantation, Blake Wintory on behalf of Lakeport (2015). Chicot County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4671-1405-9. Retrieved 13 February 2021.


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