Nathan E. Edwards

Nathan E. Edwards (1855 - 1908) was a state legislator in Arkansas.^[1] He represented Chicot County as a Republican for the 1893 session.^[2][3] He was one of at least four African Americans in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1893 along with George W. Bell in the state senate.^[4][5] He and other Arkansas legislators were photographed in 1893.^[6]

Nathan E. Edwards (1855 - 1908)

He worked as a farmer, farm laborer, and minister before and after his legislative service.^[1] He was a pastor in Eudora a First Baptist Church.^[7] He died 1908.^[7]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900