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Wikipedia: Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a U.S. state. A Republican, he served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873. Nicholas Lemann, in Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, described Pinchback as "an outsized figure: newspaper publisher, gambler, orator, speculator, dandy, mountebank – served for a few months as the state's Governor and claimed seats in both houses of Congress following disputed elections but could not persuade the members of either to seat him.
![[P. B. S. Pinchback. Library of Congress description: "Gov. Pinchback"]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/P_B_S_Pinchback_Brady_Handy_s.jpg "P. B. S. Pinchback. Library of Congress description: \"Gov. Pinchback\"")
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