Wallace B. Carr
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Wallace B. Carr (June 22, 1853-1931) was an American state legislator in
Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
. He served in the
Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...
in 1881 and 1887. He represented Leon County. He served in the Committee in Agriculture. He was born in Leon County, Florida. He had mixed heritage and was documented as being "
mulatto (, ) is a racial classification to refer to people of mixed African and European ancestry. Its use is considered outdated and offensive in several languages, including English and Dutch, whereas in languages such as Spanish and Portuguese is ...
". He was a delegate at the 1885 Florida Constitutional Convention. He was described as "colored".


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{{Reflist Members of the Florida House of Representatives 19th-century African-American politicians