Ovide Gregory, sometimes written as Ovid Gregory, (d. September 2, 1869) was a politician in Alabama during the

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. A Creole, he was multilingual and freeborn. He served in the

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. There was open hostility and racial to Gregory and the other black member of the legislator, with some questioning the legislator and constitution, with racism openly expressed on the front pages of papers. He supported legislation to outlaw African Americans "going" with Creoles. He was a rival of

John Carraway John Carraway (1834 - 1871) was a tailor, seaman, civil rights activist, and politician in the United States. In Alabama during the Reconstruction era, he served as a delegate to the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention. He also served on Mobi ...

. He advocated for more schools. He died September 2, 1869 in

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after an illness that had persisted for six months.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregory, Ovide Members of the Alabama House of Representatives Year of birth missing 1869 deaths