Henry Johnson Maxwell (May 3, 1837 – August 26, 1906)[1] was a lawyer, soldier in the Union Army, state senator,[2] and postmaster in South Carolina.[3][4]
Towards the end of the Reconstruction era as Democrats regained power, he was charged with bribery and resigned as a state senator. He was never tried.[6]
He was married twice, the second time to Martha Louisa Dibble Maxwell.[4][7] He helped raise eight children.[4] One of his sons, John Moreau Maxwell, was a store owner in Orangeburg.[8][9] Another of his sons was attorney Charles W. Maxwell.[10] Henry J. Maxwell's granddaughter Cassandra Maxwell became the first female African American lawyer in South Carolina in 1941.[3]
His photograph was included among "Radical" members of the South Carolina Legislature.[7] A historical marker is located at the site of his farm in Sumter County.[5]
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^ ab"22 Jun 1910, Page 3 - The Watchman and Southron at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. p. 3. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
^Senate, South Carolina General Assembly (June 25, 1877). "Journal of the Senate of the State of South Carolina, Being the Sessions of ..." Charles P. Pelham, State Printer – via Google Books.
^ abBurke, W. Lewis (July 1, 2017). All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968. University of Georgia Press. ISBN9780820350998 – via Google Books.
^ ab"Henry J. Maxwell Farm Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
^W. Lewis Burke (1 July 2017). All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968. University of Georgia Press. p. 84. ISBN978-0-8203-5099-8.
^ abMorrison-Reed, Mark D. (June 25, 2009). In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby. Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. ISBN9781558965416 – via Google Books.
^"Orangeburg Cemetery". City of Orangeburg, SC. July 30, 2019.
^Mack-Shelton, Kibibi V. (November 16, 2010). Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman Comes of Age in a Southern African American Family. Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN9781572337367 – via Google Books.
^"West Philadelphia Collaborative History - Members of the First South Carolina Legislature Following the Civil War". collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu.
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