Milton Coates
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Milton Coates was a cotton weigher who served as a state legislator and post office clerk in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885. A Republican, he lived on south Farmer Steet in Vicksburg.[1]
He was a.defendant in a lawsuit regarding the weighing of cotton by the city of Vicksburg.[2][3] His apppintment as a post office clerk in Vicksburg by Henry Robert Pease was illicited objections because Coates was African American.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Milton Coates – Against All Odds".
- ^ "51 Miss. 335 (Miss. 1875), Gaines v. Coates". vLex.
- ^ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cases_Argued_and_Decided_in_the_Supreme/-O8DAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=milton+coates+vicksburg&pg=PA654&printsec=frontcover
- ^ Dray, Philip (April 4, 2008). "Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – via Google Books.