Burrell James

Last updated

Burrell S. James was a state legislator in South Carolina. [1] He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives. [2] His photograph was included in a montage of "Radical Republican" South Carolina state legislators. [3]

He represented Sumter County, South Carolina. [4] He was African American. [5] [6]

He married. [2] He was one of the incorporators of the Sumter Land & Joint Stock Loan Association. [7]

He was listed in an 1887 A.M.E. publication as involved in church work in Marion, North Carolina. [8]

References

  1. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina. The State. 1868.
  2. 1 2 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina. State Printers. 1870.
  3. At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina. Univ of South Carolina Press. 25 March 2021. ISBN   9781643362359.
  4. Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877. State Company. 1905.
  5. Negro Lawmakers in the South Carolina Legislature, 1868-1902. School of Graduate Studies, South Carolina State College. 1968.
  6. The Journal of Negro History. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 1920.
  7. Carolina, South (1872). Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina.
  8. Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church. T. Mason and G. Lane. 1887.