Aesop Goodson was a state legislator and judge in South Carolina. He served in the

South Carolina House of Representatives The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections. Unlike many legislatures, seati ...

. He was removed from his position as a trial justice by the governor and alleged it was because he treated people fairly without regard to color. He and others formed the American Union Literary Club in 1872. He was African American. His children included Napoleon Goodson and Thaddeus "Tad" Goodson (1869 - 1957). Thaddeus along with Scipio Shiver provided a White folklorist with folk tales he published.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodson, Aesop Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era People from Richland County, South Carolina Year of birth missing Year of death missing