Isham Sweat

Isham Sweat was a state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives representing Cumberland County.^[1]

He was born in North Carolina. He was described as "mulatto".^[2]

He lived in Fayetteville.^[3] He was part of the colored convention held in Raleigh in 1865.^[4][5]

He was a barber.^[6]

See also

• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

1. "North Carolina State House of Representatives - 1868-1869". www.carolana.com.
2. Balanoff, Elizabeth (1972). "Negro Legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly, July, 1868-February, 1872". The North Carolina Historical Review. 49 (1): 22–55. JSTOR 23529002 – via JSTOR.
3. Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac (December 29, 1914). Reconstruction in North Carolina. Columbia University. ISBN 9780231925549 – via Google Books.
4. "Clipped From The New Berne Times". October 2, 1865. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
5. Jr, Warren Eugene Milteer (July 1, 2020). North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715–1885. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807173787 – via Google Books.
6. Andrews, Sidney (December 29, 1866). The South Since the War: as Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel ... in Georgia and the Carolinas. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 9781425543648 – via Google Books.