Pleasant Porter
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Pleasant Porter (1840-1907), was a respected American Indian statesman and the Principal Chief of the Creek Nation from 1899 until his death. He served with the Confederacy in the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers, as Superintendent of Schools in the Creek Nation (1870), as commander of the Creek Light Horsemen (1883), and was many times the Creek delegate to the United States Congress. He was also President of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention in 1905 during the attempt to acquire statehood for the Indian Territory.[citation needed]
[edit] Ancestry
Pleasant Porter was the son of Benjamin Edward Porter and Phoebe, daughter of Lydia Perryman (daughter of Chief Perryman) and Tah-lo-pee Tust-a-nuk-kee, a town Chief[1]. As such, he was a mix-blood Creek.
[edit] References
- ^ Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 15, No. 2, page 168, June, 1937, THE PERRYMANS, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v015/v015p166.html
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