William Jasper Blackburn (July 24, 1820 – November 10, 1899) was an American

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and politician who served in the

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from northwestern

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from July 18, 1868, to March 3, 1869. A

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during

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, he was elected to the Louisiana State Senate, serving from 1874 to 1878.

Biography

Instead he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. He lost to the African American

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, who was elected to the second position on the

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ticket. After a four-year stint in the Louisiana Senate, Blackburn returned in 1880 to

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, where he published the ''Arkansas Republican'' from 1881 to 1884 and ''The Free South'' from 1885 to 1892. He died in Little Rock and is interred there in Mount Holly Cemetery.

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