Wiley Baker
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Wiley Baker (1850 or 1851 – ?) was a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Northampton County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883.[1][2][3]
He was born in 1850 or 1851 and educated following the American Civil War.[4] A farmer who lived in Dogwood, North Carolina,[5] he also served as a county official.[6] He was one of a few Republicans – alongside William Belcher, Turner Speller, and Edward H. Sutton, among others – who generally opposed the creation of public schools for white cities in counties with significant black populations.[4] He served on a committee for the state's Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum alongside Jacob Montgomery, James Harris, and William Johnson.[4]
There is no record of his life after the 1890s, and he may have died outside of North Carolina.[4]
See also
- African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
- List of first African-American U.S. state legislators
References
- ^ Woodson, Carter Godwin; Logan, Rayford Whittingham (December 8, 1920). "The Journal of Negro History". Association for the Study of Negro Life and History – via Google Books.
- ^ Simmons-Henry, Linda (December 8, 1990). "The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina". North Carolina African American Heritage Foundation – via Google Books.
- ^ "National Roster of Black Elected Officials". Joint Center for Political Studies. December 8, 1976 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d Justesen, Benjamin R. (2009). ""The Class of '83": Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly". North Carolina Historical Review. 86 (3).
- ^ Carolina, North (December 8, 1883). "Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session". J. Turner, Jr. – via Google Books.
- ^ "The North Carolina Historical Review". North Carolina Historical Commission. December 8, 2009 – via Google Books.