Pinckney Benton Stewart “Pinchback,' born May 10, 1837, was an African American publisher, politician, Union Army officer, and the first person of African descent to become governor of a U.S state. Stewart grew up a free person in Macon, Georgia. His parents were Eliza Stewart, who was a freed slave, and Major William Pinchback, a […]
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