Prince Gardner

Prince Gardner was a state legislator in Alabama. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874 until he was unseated.

In 1872 he was documented as a teacher in Barbour County.[1] He was a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church in Russell County, Alabama.[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874.[3][4][5] representing Russell County, Alabama.[6]

He and D. J. Daniels, an African American, were unseated.[7] Petitioners contesting their election states that 1,500 of their votes were illegal.[8] Allen E. Williams, Edward Odum, and Adam Gachet, representatives of Barbour County, Alabama, were also ousted from the Alabama House of Representatives.[9]

He was a signatory on a Memorial of the Republican Members of the Legislature of Alabama to the Congress of the United States.[10]

See also

References
  1. Legislature, Alabama (August 1, 1873). "Legislative Documents" – via Google Books.
  2. Bailey, Richard (January 1, 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588381897 – via Google Books.
  3. "House of Representatives (1874)". The Montgomery Advertiser. 17 November 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 7 August 2022.open access
  4. Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk (July 30, 1977). The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817305574 – via Google Books.
  5. Smith, Charles Spencer; Payne, Daniel Alexander (August 1, 1922). "A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: Being a Volume Supplemental to a History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church". Johnson Reprint – via Google Books.
  6. Report ... To Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... To Vote Had Been Denied or Abridged. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1877.
  7. Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (August 1, 1876). "Journal" – via Google Books.
  8. Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (August 1, 1876). "Journal" – via Google Books.
  9. Bailey, Richard (August 1, 1999). They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, 1800-1999. Pyramid Pub. ISBN 9780967188300 – via Google Books.
  10. Elections, United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and (August 1, 1877). "Report ... to Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... to Vote Had Been Denied Or Abridged". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.


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