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]