Prince Gardner
Prince Gardner was a state legislator in Alabama. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874 until he was unseated.
In 1872 he was documented as a teacher in Barbour County.[1] He was a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church in Russell County, Alabama.[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874.[3][4][5] representing Russell County, Alabama.[6]
He and D. J. Daniels, an African American, were unseated.[7] Petitioners contesting their election states that 1,500 of their votes were illegal.[8] Allen E. Williams, Edward Odum, and Adam Gachet, representatives of Barbour County, Alabama, were also ousted from the Alabama House of Representatives.[9]
He was a signatory on a Memorial of the Republican Members of the Legislature of Alabama to the Congress of the United States.[10]
See also
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- African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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