Burrell S. James was a state legislator in South Carolina.[1] He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives.[2] His photograph was included in a montage of "Radical Republican" South Carolina state legislators.[3]

He represented Sumter County, South Carolina.[4] He was African American.[5][6]

He married.[2] He was one of the incorporators of the Sumter Land & Joint Stock Loan Association.[7]

He was listed in an 1887 A.M.E. publication as involved in church work in Marion, North Carolina.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina. The State. 1868.
  2. 1 2 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina. State Printers. 1870.
  3. ↑ At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina. Univ of South Carolina Press. 25 March 2021. ISBN 9781643362359.
  4. ↑ Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877. State Company. 1905.
  5. ↑ Negro Lawmakers in the South Carolina Legislature, 1868-1902. School of Graduate Studies, South Carolina State College. 1968.
  6. ↑ The Journal of Negro History. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 1920.
  7. ↑ Carolina, South (1872). Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina.
  8. ↑ Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church. T. Mason and G. Lane. 1887.


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