be_map1512 Ultima Forumer
Number of posts : 622 Warnings : Reputation : 0 Points : 6638 Registration date : 2010-10-08
| Subject: P. B. S. Pinchback Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:10 am | |
| Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a U.S. state. A Republican, he served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873. Nicholas Lemann, in Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, described Pinchback as "an outsized figure: newspaper publisher, gambler, orator, speculator, dandy, mountebank – served for a few months as the state's Governor and claimed seats in both houses of Congress following disputed elections but could not persuade the members of either to seat him dvdpurchase ipad | |
|