Hugh C. Newsome was a teacher, postal clerk, city marshall, and state legislator in Arkansas. In 1887, he served in the Arkansas House of Representatives.[1][2]

He served as a county judge from 1882 until 1884.[3] He married.[4]

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  1. ^ "Southeast Arkansas's African-American Legislators, 1868-1893". The Lakeport Plantation. February 17, 2016.
  2. ^ State, Arkansas Office of the Secretary of (December 15, 1905). "Report" – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Stockley, Grif (July 15, 2012). Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas From Slavery to the Present. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781610753562 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Ross, Margaret Smith (1956). "Nathan Warren, a Free Negro for the Old South". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 15 (1): 53–61. doi:10.2307/40027190. JSTOR 40027190 – via JSTOR.