| LC control no. | no2003082834 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cheatham, Henry Plummer, 1857-1935 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1857-12-27 |
| Death date | 1935-11-29 |
| Place of birth | Henderson (N.C.) |
| Place of death | Oxford (N.C.) |
| Affiliation | Shaw University United States. Congress North Carolina Orphanage for Negroes (Oxford, N.C.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Politicians Educators |
| Found in | Black congressmen during Reconstruction, 2002: p. 59 (Henry Plummer Cheatham, 1857-1935) Dictionary of North Carolina biography, A-C, 1979: p. 359 (Cheatham, Henry Plummer, 27 Dec. 1857-29 Nov. 1935, politician, educator, and racial spokeman, born to a house slave on a plantation near Henderson (N.C.)) Elmore, J.E. North Carolina Negro congressmen, 1875-1901, 1964: leaf 111 (Henry Plummer Cheatham ... born Dec. 27, 1859 ...) African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cheatham, Henry Plummer; state government official, U.S. Representative, politician, educator; born 27 December 1857 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, United States. He graduated from Shaw University (1882) and was principal of Plymouth Normal School for Negroes, North Carolina (1882-1884). He was elected Vance County registrar of deeds (1885-1888) and later was elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congress (1890). He was appointed registrar of deeds for District of Columbia (1897-1901), and superintendent of North Carolina Orphanage for Negroes, Oxford, North Carolina (1907-1935). He died 29 November 1935 in Oxford, North Carolina, United States) |
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