Thomas W. Stringer
Thomas W. Stringer (1815–1893) was an American Christian minister in the A.M.E. Church and a state senator in Mississippi. He helped organize churches, schools, and fraternal organizations. He was elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1869.[1][2]
Stringer was born in Maryland,[1] and raised at North Buxton, Ontario, a settlement of Black Canadians.[2] He later moved to Ohio, where he was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[1]
He moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the American Civil War.[3] He was an organizer at Mississippi's 1868 constitutional convention.[4]
He is buried at the Vicksburg City Cemetery.[1]
See also[]
- Hiram Revels, another African-American Senator
- Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
References[]
- ^ a b c d Sewell, George A.; Dwight, Margaret L. (November 19, 1984). Mississippi Black History Makers. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604733907 – via pages 49-51.
- ^ a b Buxton Historical Society. "Rev. Thomas W. Stringer (1815-1897)". Buxton National Historic Site & Museum.
- ^ Jackson, David H. Jr. (2013). "Stringer, Thomas W." Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.37963. ISBN 9780195301731.
- ^ "Buxton National Historic Site & Museum".
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- 1815 births
- 1893 deaths
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- People from Maryland
- African-American state legislators in Mississippi
- Politicians from Vicksburg, Mississippi
- African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
- Burials in Mississippi
- 19th-century American politicians
- African Methodist Episcopal Church clergy
- American expatriates in Canada
- 19th-century American Episcopalians
- 19th-century American clergy