J. Hendrix McLane

J. Hendrix McLane (born March 23, 1848, in Jackson County, Georgia[1] – died 1893) was an American politician. He ran for governor of South Carolina in the 1882 South Carolina gubernatorial election as a Greenback Labor Party candidate. He belonged to several political parties during his career, and was a reformer for a time in the Republican Party. He advocated for the rights of African Americans.[2] He also campaigned for white agrarian poor of the Southeastern United States.[3]

Yale University has a collection of his papers.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Collection: John Augustus Hendrix McLane papers | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu.
  2. ^ Rome, Steven (January 1, 2020). "The Apostle of Dissent: J. Hendrix McLane's Fight Against History in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina". MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections.
  3. ^ Kantrowitz, Stephen (2000). "Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, "The Farmers," and the Limits of Southern Populism". The Journal of Southern History. 66 (3): 497–524. doi:10.2307/2587866. JSTOR 2587866 – via JSTOR.