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Cameron Madison Alexander (b. 1932) —
also known as Cameron M. Alexander —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
12, 1932.
Democrat. Minister; leader of the Antioch Baptist Church
North, Atlanta, Ga.; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 2017.
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Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor (1863-1950) —
also known as Mary H. Armor —
of Eastman, Dodge
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Penfield, Greene
County, Ga., March 9,
1863.
Democrat. Orator;
evangelist; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1924,
1928.
Female.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union; League of Women
Voters; United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died November
6, 1950 (age 87 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Eastman, Ga.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Lindsay Manning Harris and Sarah Fanny (Johnson)
Harris; married to Walter Florence Armor. |
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Josiah H. Baker (1875-1945) —
also known as Joe H. Baker —
of Quitman, Wood
County, Tex.
Born in Georgia, April
24, 1875.
Minister; farmer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives 34th District, 1929.
Died in Wood
County, Tex., February
28, 1945 (age 69 years, 310
days).
Interment at Ingram Cemetery, Wood County, Tex.
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Alexander Battiste (b. 1840) —
Born in Georgia, February
2, 1840.
Not U.S. citizen; clergyman; U.S. Deputy Consul in Port-au-Prince, 1891-98; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Port-au-Prince, 1904-05; U.S. Vice Consul in Port-au-Prince, as of 1915-16.
Burial location unknown.
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William T. Bodenhamer (1905-1984) —
of Ty Ty, Tift
County, Ga.; Tifton, Tift
County, Ga.
Born in Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., November
19, 1905.
Democrat. School
teacher; minister; Tift
County Superintendent of Schools, 1937-39; president,
Nordman College, 1944-49; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Tift County, 1953-56.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Pi
Kappa Alpha; Blue
Key; Woodmen.
Died in October, 1984
(age 78
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joshua Edgar Bodenhamer and Katherine (Hunt) Bodenhamer; married,
January
27, 1935, to Mariam Cornelia Brooks. |
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Tunis George Campbell (1812-1891) —
also known as Tunis G. Campbell —
of McIntosh
County, Ga.
Born in Middlebrook (unknown
county), N.J., April 1,
1812.
Minister; abolitionist; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Georgia
state senate, 1868, 1869-72; expelled 1868; defeated, 1872; expelled
from the Georgia State Senate in 1868 based on the claim that only
whites could serve; charged
with falsely
imprisoning white men as Justice of of the Peace, and served a
year of hard
labor in Georgia's brutal leased labor system.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
4, 1891 (age 79 years, 247
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Archibald James Carey (1868-1931) —
also known as Archibald J. Carey —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in slavery,
in Georgia, August
25, 1868.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; president,
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Fla., 1895; minister;
bishop; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 3rd District,
1920-22; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1924;
member, Chicago Civil Service Commission, 1927-29; indicted
in 1929 on charges
of accepting
bribes from job applicants; the case never came to trial.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, in Billings Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
23, 1931 (age 62 years, 210
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Cemetery, Blue Island, Ill.
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Douglas A. Collins (b. 1966) —
also known as Doug Collins —
of Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga., August
16, 1966.
Republican. Pastor; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 2007-12; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 2013-.
Southern
Baptist.
Still living as of 2016.
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Phillip Watkins Davis —
also known as Phillip W. Davis —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Lawyer;
Baptist minister; member of Georgia
state senate, 1882-83; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1888-89.
Baptist.
Interment at Elmhurst
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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Clement Anselm Evans (1833-1911) —
also known as Clement A. Evans —
of Georgia.
Born in Stewart
County, Ga., March
25, 1833.
State court judge in Georgia, 1854; member of Georgia
state senate, 1859; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Methodist minister.
Methodist.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died July 2,
1911 (age 78 years, 99
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Nathaniel Greene Foster (1809-1869) —
of Madison, Morgan
County, Ga.
Born near Madison, Morgan
County, Ga., August
25, 1809.
Lawyer;
solicitor general, Okmulgee circuit, 1838-40; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1840; member of Georgia
state senate, 1841-43, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1855-57; pastor;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1867-68.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Madison, Morgan
County, Ga., October
19, 1869 (age 60 years, 55
days).
Interment at Madison
Cemetery, Madison, Ga.
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Bevil Jones —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Democrat. Bishop; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2009.
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Clennon Washington King Jr. (c.1921-2000) —
also known as Clennon King; "The Black Don
Quixote" —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born about 1921.
Minister; Independent Afro-American candidate for President
of the United States, 1960; candidate for mayor of
Miami, Fla., 1996.
African
ancestry.
Attempted
to enroll in the then-all-white University of Mississippi in
1958, and was sent to the state's insane
asylum; attempted to join and integrate Jimmy
Carter's all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on the eve of
the 1976 presidential election. Jailed
on numerous occasions for his flamboyant tactics.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., February
12, 2000 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albany, Ga.
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James Thomas Laney (b. 1927) —
also known as James T. Laney —
of Georgia.
Born in Wilson, Mississippi
County, Ark., December
24, 1927.
Ordained minister; president,
Emory University, 1977-93; U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1993-96.
Methodist.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Still living as of 2014.
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James Wideman Lee (1849-1919) —
also known as James W. Lee —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Rockbridge, Gwinnett
County, Ga., November
28, 1849.
Democrat. Minister; writer; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1916.
Southern
Methodist.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., October
4, 1919 (age 69 years, 310
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Zachery James Lee and Emily Harris (Wideman) Lee; married to Emma
Eufaula Ledbetter. |
| | | Epitaph: "Servant of God and Lover of
Man. Forty-Five Years a Methodist Preacher Who Lived and Died to Make
Earth and Heaven One." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edgar M. Levy (1822-1906) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in St. Marys, Camden
County, Ga., November
23, 1822.
Republican. Minister; offered prayer, Republican National
Convention, 1856,
1900.
Baptist.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
29, 1906 (age 83 years, 340
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor; leader in the civil rights movement;
co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; escaped
death in 1963 when his hotel room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 2008.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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C. Robert Marsh —
of Laurel, Jones
County, Miss.; Dothan, Houston
County, Ala.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Mississippi.
Democrat. Pastor; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988.
Southern
Baptist.
Still living as of 2016.
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William Hampton McAfee (1833-1915) —
of Dahlonega, Lumpkin
County, Ga.
Born in Frogtown District, Lumpkin
County, Ga., November
16, 1833.
Methodist minister; member of Georgia
state senate, 1873, 1882, 1900.
Died November
26, 1915 (age 82 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elias Camp Morris (1855-1922) —
also known as Elias C. Morris —
of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.
Born in Spring Place, Murray
County, Ga., May 7,
1855.
Republican. Preacher; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1892,
1900,
1908
(alternate), 1912
(alternate).
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., September
5, 1922 (age 67 years, 121
days).
Interment at Dixon Cemetery, Helena-West Helena, Ark.
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Thomas Scott (born c.1954) —
also known as Tom Scott —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., about 1954.
Minister; Hillsborough
County Commissioner, 1996-2004; member, Tampa City Council,
2007-11; candidate for mayor of
Tampa, Fla., 2011.
Church
of God. African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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Charles S. T. Strickland (1848-1921) —
also known as Charlie S. T. Strickland —
of Tattnall
County, Ga.
Born in 1848.
Methodist minister; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1902-04.
Methodist.
Died in 1921
(age about
73 years).
Interment at Brewton
Cemetery, Hagan, Ga.
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Baker Ewing Watkins (1800-1876) —
of Colquitt
County, Ga.
Born in Meadow Creek, Whitley
County, Ky., August
18, 1800.
Minister; physician;
delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865.
Methodist.
Died in Colquitt
County, Ga., November
26, 1876 (age 76 years, 100
days).
Interment at Greenfield
Cemetery, Moultrie, Ga.
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Marshall Johnson Wellborn (1808-1874) —
of Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., May 29,
1808.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1833-34; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1838-42; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1849-51; ordained
minister.
Baptist.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., October
16, 1874 (age 66 years, 140
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) —
also known as Hosea Williams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Attapulgus, Decatur
County, Ga., January
5, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; walked
with a cane due to wartime injury; ordained minister;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972; member of Georgia
state house of representatives 54th District, 1975-85; candidate
for mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1989.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Phi
Beta Sigma; Elks; Freemasons;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion.
Civil rights leader; active in sit-ins
and protest
marches in Savannah and elsewhere; arrested
at least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general"
in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for Black
voting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated. Convicted
in 1981 of leaving
the scene of an accident, and jailed
for six months.
Died, of cancer,
at Piedmont Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 316
days).
Entombed at Lincoln
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932) —
also known as Andy Young —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
12, 1932.
Democrat. Ordained minister; one of the founders of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. until his assassination; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1973-77; defeated,
1970; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1977-79; mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1982-90; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1990.
United
Church of Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Prince
Hall Masons.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1978; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Still living as of 2021.
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John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in St. Gall, Switzerland,
August
27, 1724.
Ordained minister; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775-76; accused
of treason
against the Continental Congress and banished
in 1777; half of his estate was confiscated;
returned to Savannah in 1779.
Presbyterian.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 23,
1781 (age 56 years, 330
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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