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Benjamin Yordy was "Colored" a public official in Alabama.[1]

He was a delegate to the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention.[2][3] He represented Sumter County, Alabama.[4] Convention's Education committee [5]

Freedmens Bureau offical[6][7]

Is this him? Weaver in Pennsylvania?[8]

Walter Lynwood Fleming wrote that he never saw the county he represented at the constitutional convention.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Fleming, Walter Lynwood (February 18, 1905). Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-90658-6 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Owen, Thomas Mcadory (1921). "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography".
  3. ^ "1868 Constitution Delegates | We the People Alabama". Wethepeoplealabama.
  4. ^ "Official Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama: Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on Tuesday, November 5th, A.D. 1867". 1868.
  5. ^ Ziegler, Edith (6 October 2010). Schools in the Landscape: Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama's Public Education System, 1865-1915. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817317096.
  6. ^ Bailey, Richard (January 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588381897.
  7. ^ Fleming, Walter Lynwood (1905). Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231906586.
  8. ^ Anderson, Clarita (February 18, 2002). American Coverlets and Their Weavers: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl : Including a Dictionary of More Than 700 Coverlet Weavers. Colonial Williamsburg. ISBN 978-0-87935-215-8 – via Google Books.
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