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Nicholas Burton was an A.M.E. Church minister, sheriff, and politician in
Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
. He served in the
Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...
in 1877 and 1878. He was involved in a disputed election with
Cain Sartain J. Cain Sartain (1843 - 1902) was a planter, justice of the peace, sheriff, and state legislator in Louisiana. He was a Republican. He and P. Jones Yorke represented Carroll Parish. He served from 1873 to 1878. His final years representing newly c ...
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, ...


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Louisiana sheriffs African Methodist Episcopal Church clergy Year of birth missing Year of death missing 19th-century American politicians African-American state legislators in Louisiana African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era {{Louisiana-politician-stub