John Adams HYMAN, Congress, NC (1840-1891)

HYMAN, John Adams, a Representative from North Carolina; born a slave near Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., July 23, 1840; was sold and sent to Alabama; returned to North Carolina in 1865 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; pursued elementary studies; delegate to the State equal rights convention in 1865 and to the State constitutional convention in 1868; member of the State senate 1868-1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed agricultural pursuits; special deputy collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of North Carolina from July 1, 1877, to June 30, 1878; died in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1891; interment in Harmony Cemetery.

Bibliography

”John Adams Hyman” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2008; Reid, George W. “Four in Black: North Carolina’s Black Congressmen, 1874-1901.” Journal of Negro History 64 (Summer 1979): 229-43.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present