John A. Chesnut

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John A. Chestnut (also spelled Chesnut) was a delegate to the 1868 Constitutional Convention of South Carolina. [1] He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives. [2]

His grandfather was freed by Col. James Chestnut. [3]

He, S. G. W. Dill, and Justus Kendall Jillson represented Kershaw County at the convention.

References

  1. ↑ Carolina, South (1868). "The Constitution of South Carolina: Adopted April 16, 1868, and the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly Passed at the Special Session of 1868[-1871] Together with the Military Orders Therein Re-enacted".
  2. ↑ "Documents". The Journal of Negro History . 5 (1). Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. January 1920.
  3. ↑ Hume, Richard L.; Gough, Jerry B. (October 2008). Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. ISBN   9780807134702.
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