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William A. Feilds (between c. 1846 and 1852 – September 9, 1898) was an American schoolteacher and principal who served one term as a
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legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1885 to 1886. He was also elected a member of the Shelby County county court (a legislative body) and a justice of the peace. He was born an enslaved person, a ( slave). According to researchers on the American documentary series '' Who Do You Think You Are?'' (2011), he is the paternal great-great-grandfather of actress, singer and
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and of actor Chris Williams and the maternal great-great-great-grandfather of
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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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Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives African-American state legislators in Tennessee 1898 deaths Year of birth uncertain American school administrators Schoolteachers from Tennessee County commissioners in Tennessee People from Shelby County, Tennessee 19th-century American slaves Vanessa Williams American freedmen {{Tennessee-politician-stub