Milton Coates was a cotton weigher who served as a state legislator and post office clerk in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885. A Republican, he lived on south Farmer Street in Vicksburg.[1]
He was a defendant in a lawsuit regarding the weighing of cotton by the city of Vicksburg.[2][3] His appointment as a post office clerk in Vicksburg by Henry Roberts Pease elicited objections because Coates was African American.[4]
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edit- ^ "Milton Coates – Against All Odds".
- ^ "51 Miss. 335 (Miss. 1875), Gaines v. Coates". vLex.
- ^ Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi. E. W. Stephens publishing Company. 1879.
- ^ Dray, Philip (April 4, 2008). Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0618563708 – via Google Books.
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