Isaac Brockenton

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Isaac P. Brockenton (May 19, 1828 - January 6, 1908) was a minister, trial justice, county commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina. [1] He represented Darlington County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives. [2]

He studied at Richmond Theological Seminary [1] and was a founding leader of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Darlington. [2] [3]

He served as a delegate from Darlington County to the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention. [4] [1] He was a Republican. [1]

He married Martha Jackson and had several children. [1] He helped organize the Negro Baptist Convention of South Carolina and served as its president for 40 years. [1] He also served as a moderator for the Pee Dee Baptist Association and on the Board of Trustees Member at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina and Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina. [1] He was the first president of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina. [5] He is buried at the Darlington Memorial Cemetery. [6] The Library of Congress has an uncut sheet of Union Republican Tickets for B. F. Whittemore, Brockenton, Jordan Lang, and Richard Humbert (written as Richard Hunbird) for a convention. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Reconstruction 1865-1877 Series". Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
  2. 1 2 "Dr. I.P. Brockenton". Darlington County Historical Commission & Museum. August 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Macedonia Church".
  4. ↑ "Constitutional Convention - Delegates". The Charleston Daily News. 30 December 1867. p. 1. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  5. ↑ "History of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of SC".
  6. ↑ "8", USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Darlington Memorial Cemetery) (PDF), National Park Service (NPS), p. 7, OMB No. 1024-0018, retrieved July 21, 2024
  7. ↑ "Union Republican ticket of Darlington District for the convention. [Darlington campaign ticket]". Library of Congress.
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