Tenant Weatherly

Tenant Weatherly (January 1851 - ?) was an American state legislator in Mississippi.^[1][2] He represented Holmes County, Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 and 1880 to 1881 in the Mississippi House of Representatives.^[3] He was a Methodist.^[3]

1874 official portrait

Initially no representative was listed for Holmes County in the 1880 legislature as the registrars referred an issue to the House to decide the outcome.^[4] The issue had been that the voting box from Acona had been lost or destroyed along with approximately 300 votes.^[5] The House decided to elect those with the highest votes from the rest of the county, thus appointing Weatherly along with H. Christmas and C. T. Murphy.^[5]

See also

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