Hannibal Caesar Carter (February 1835 - June 1, 1904)[1] was the Secretary of State of Mississippi from September 1 to October 20, 1873, and from November 13, 1873, to January 4, 1874, serving the first term after being appointed when Hiram R. Revels resigned.[2][3][4][5][6] He also served two non-consecutive terms representing Warren County in the Mississippi House of Representatives, the first from 1872 to 1873 the second from 1876 to 1877, both times as a Republican.[1][7][6] In later years he changed his affiliation to Democratic.[8] He was one of several African Americans to serve as Mississippi Secretary of State during the Reconstruction era.[9]
Carter was born in New Albany, Indiana, on February 1835, then moving to Toronto, Canada for his early childhood.[1] He and his brother served in the Native Guards of Louisiana and then the Union Army.[10][11]
He helped establish the Freedmen's Oklahoma Immigration Association in Chicago in 1881.[12]
He spent his later life in Chicago, Illinois, where he then died at home June 1, 1904 at the age of 69.[8]
References
- ^ a b c "Hannibal C. Carter – Against All Odds".
- ^ "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". Secretary of State. June 21, 1900 – via Google Books.
- ^ The History of the Negro Vote in Mississippi. Loyola University Chicago eCommons. 1957. p. 95. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 461.
- ^ https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/ed_pubs/pubs/BlueBook16-20/16%20Historical%20and%20Statistical%20Info%20Section%20707-738.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. 1924. p. 170.
- ^ "21 Aug 1875, 4 - The Vicksburg Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Hannibal C. Carter Death 1904". The Appeal (Saint Paul, Minnesota). 11 June 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 1 August 2020 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". 1924.
- ^ Peters, Pamela R. (July 6, 2017). The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. McFarland. p. 79. ISBN 9780786450626 – via Google Books.
- ^ Peters, Pamela R. (July 6, 2017). The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. McFarland. p. 78. ISBN 9780786450626 – via Google Books.
- ^ Johnson, Hannibal B. (January 1, 2005). "The All-Black Towns in Oklahoma".