Isaac P. Brockenton (May 19, 1828 - January 6, 1908) was a minister, trial justice, county commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina.[1] He represented Darlington County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives.[2]
He studied at Richmond Theological Seminary[1] and was a founding leader of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Darlington.[2][3]
He served as a delegate from Darlington County to the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention.[4][1] He was a Republican.[1]
He married Martha Jackson and had several children.[1] He helped organize the Negro Baptist Convention of South Carolina and served as its president for 40 years.[1] He also served as a moderator for the Pee Dee Baptist Association and on the Board of Trustees Member at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina and Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina.[1] He was the first president of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina.[5] He is buried at the Darlington Memorial Cemetery.[6] The Library of Congress has an uncut sheet of Union Republican Tickets for B. F. Whittemore, Brockenton, Jordan Lang, and Richard Humbert (written as Richard Hunbird) for a convention.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Reconstruction 1865-1877 Series".
- ^ a b "Dr. I.P. Brockenton". Darlington County Historical Commission & Museum. August 20, 2020.
- ^ "Macedonia Church".
- ^ "Constitutional Convention - Delegates". The Charleston Daily News. 30 December 1867. p. 1. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ "History of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of SC".
- ^ http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/darlington/S10817716049/S10817716049.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Union Republican ticket of Darlington District for the convention. [Darlington campaign ticket]". Library of Congress.