John Dozier

John Dozier was an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He served in 1871 and 1873.^[1]

In 1873 he represented Perry County, Alabama along with P. G. Clarke and G. S. W. Lewis.^[2]

He was enslaved and was owned by a college president in Virginia who manumitted him. His wife and son had been sold to and were on a plantation in Alabama. Dozier went to them. He became a pastor and settled in Marion County, Alabama where he founded the First Colored Baptist Church. He was a trustee of Lincoln Normal School.^[3]

He and other black Alabama legislators of the Reconstruction era are commemorated on a historical marker.^[1]