Hannibal C. Carter | |
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20th and 22nd Secretary of State of Mississippi | |
In office September 1, 1873 – October 20, 1873 | |
Governor | Ridgely C. Powers |
Preceded by | Hiram R. Revels |
Succeeded by | M. M. McLeod |
In office November 13, 1873 – January 4, 1874 | |
Governor | Ridgely C. Powers |
Preceded by | M. M. McLeod |
Succeeded by | James Hill |
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the Warren County district | |
In office 1872–1873 | |
In office 1876–1877 | |
Personal details | |
Born | New Albany, Indiana | February , 1835
Died | June 1, 1904 Chicago, Illinois | (aged 69)
Hannibal Caesar Carter (February 1835 - June 1, 1904)[1] was the Secretary of State of Mississippi from September 1 to October 20, 1873, and from November 13, 1873, to January 4, 1874, serving the first term after being appointed when Hiram R. Revels resigned.[2][3][4][5][6] He also served two non-consecutive terms representing Warren County in the Mississippi House of Representatives, the first from 1872 to 1873 the second from 1876 to 1877, both times as a Republican.[1][7][6] In later years he changed his affiliation to Democratic.[8] He was one of several African Americans to serve as Mississippi Secretary of State during the Reconstruction era.[9]
Carter was born in New Albany, Indiana, in February 1835, then moving to Toronto, Canada for his early childhood.[1] He and his brother served in the Native Guards of Louisiana and then the Union Army.[10][11]
He helped establish the Freedmen's Oklahoma Immigration Association in Chicago in 1881.[12]
He spent his later life in Chicago, Illinois, where he then died at home June 1, 1904 at the age of 69.[8]