Minnie Buckingham Harper
Minnie Buckingham Harper (May 15, 1886 – February 10, 1978) was an American politician and housewife.[1]
Born in Winfield, West Virginia, Harper was a resident of Keystone when she became in 1928 the first black woman legislator in the United States. She was appointed by Governor Howard M. Gore to the West Virginia House of Delegates to fill the vacancy left by the death of her husband Ebenezer Howard Harper.[2][3] The McDowell County Republican Executive Committee unanimously recommended that Harper fill her husband's position.[4]
She did not seek reelection at the end of her term.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lean'tin L. Bracks; Jessie Carney Smith (2014). Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780810885431.
- ^ Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (2008). African American National Biography. Oxford University. p. 72. ISBN 9780195160192.
- ^ "Congressional Record" (PDF).
- ^ "West Virginia Encyclopedia".
External links
[edit]- Talbott, I. D. "Duke"; Charles M. Murphy (November 30, 2012). "Minnie Buckingham Harper". e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
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