Cuffee Mayo
Cuffee Mayo, sometimes spelled Cuffie Mayo, (1803 – January 14, 1896) was a minister, laborer, and politician in North Carolina. He was a Republican.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Cuffee Mayo was born free in Virginia in 1803. His family moved to Warren County, North Carolina by 1808 and settled in Granville County by 1840. He worked as a blacksmith and a minister.[1]
Political career
[edit | edit source]Mayo was one of 13 colored delegates elected to the 1868 North Carolina constitutional convention.[2] He served on the body's Committee on Legislature.[3] During its proceedings he voted in support of making superior court judges subject to popular election[4] and opposed the inclusion of a loyalty oath for prospective voter registrants to federal laws and the U.S. Constitution in the hopes of letting "more become eligible" to vote.[5]
Mayo was one of 17 colored men elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1868,[6] representing Granville County in that body for a term from 1868 to 1870.[7] In both the first and second sessions of the 1868 legislature he served on the Committee on Claims.[8] In a March 1869 debate he opposed the re-enfranchisement of Confederate veterans, citing the opposition of many of them to the state legislature and to the U.S. Congress.[9] He participated in the Republican Party's Granville County convention in July 1876.[10]
Later life
[edit | edit source]Mayo died on January 14, 1896 at his home outside of Oxford.[11]
References
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- ^ Balanoff 1972, p. 23.
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Works cited
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