John Dozier

Last updated August 04, 2025

John Dozier was an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He served in 1871 and 1873.^[1]

In 1873 he represented Perry County, Alabama along with P. G. Clarke and G. S. W. Lewis.^[2]

He was enslaved and was owned by a college president in Virginia who manumitted him. His wife and son had been sold to and were on a plantation in Alabama. Dozier went to them. He became a pastor and settled in Marion County, Alabama where he founded the First Colored Baptist Church. He was a trustee of Lincoln Normal School.^[3]

He and other black Alabama legislators of the Reconstruction era are commemorated on a historical marker.^[1]

References

1 2 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=91290
↑ Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (December 30, 1873). "Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama" – via Google Books.
↑ Fallin, Wilson (August 17, 2007). Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1569-6 – via Google Books.

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[hm-1] 1 2 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=91290

[2] Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (December 30, 1873). "Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama" – via Google Books.

[3] Fallin, Wilson (August 17, 2007). Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1569-6 – via Google Books.

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