Henry Plummer Cheatham (Q490592)
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U.S. Representative
State Government Official
Henry Plummer Cheatham
Enslaved. A school principal and orphanage superintendent who was elected in South Carolina to the Fifty-first Congress, and in spite of criticisms about his patronage record, became the only African American elected to the Fifty-Second Congress.