Thomas Crayton was an American minister and state legislator in Georgia. He served in the Georgia Senate. He was expelled.[1] He had been enslaved.[2] Henry McNeal Turner appointed him to head a church in Lumpkin.[3] He was a Republican. His life was threatened.[4] He was born in Georgia. He represented Stewart County, Georgia.[5]
He was a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868.
References
edit- ^ Drago, Edmund L. (1992). Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. University of Georgia Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8203-1438-9.
- ^ O'Donovan, Susan Eva (2010-04-10). Becoming Free in the Cotton South. Harvard University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-674-26631-5.
- ^ Angell, Stephen Ward (1992). Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Univ. of Tennessee Press. pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-1-57233-156-3.
- ^ Dickerson, Dennis C. (2020-01-09). The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History. Cambridge University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-108-77562-5.
- ^ Foner, Eric (1993). Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-19-507406-2.
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