Marshall McNeese

• Carpenter
• politician

Marshall McNeese
Official portrait, 1874
Member of the MississippiHouseofRepresentatives from Noxubee County
In office 1874–1878 Servingwith J. W. Chandler (1874‍–‍1876) Thomas A. Cotton (1874‍–‍1876) H. L. Jarnagin (1876‍–‍1878) Lawrence Overton (1876‍–‍1878)

Marshall McNeese served as a state legislator in Mississippi during the 1870s. ^[1]

McNeese was born in Georgia and is documented as having been a carpenter and illiterate. He represented Noxubee County, Mississippi from 1870 to 1871 and from 1874 to 1877. ^[2]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900

References

1. "Marshall McNeese – Against All Odds".
2. Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 146