Emanuel Handy, sometimes recorded as Emmanuel Handy, was a soldier, constable, farmer, and politician who lived in Mississippi. He was a delegate at the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and served in the

Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected for ...

. He was African American.

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Handy was born in

Copiah County, Mississippi Copiah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,368. The county seat is Hazlehurst. With an eastern border formed by the Pearl River, Copiah County is part of the Jackson, MS ...

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Eric Foner Eric Foner (; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstr ...

Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 94 He served as a sergeant in the Union Army during the

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. He was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a farmer, a constable, and a state legislator in Mississippi. He was elected to the

, serving in office from 1870 to 1873. He died in 1922 aged 85. One of fellow African American Mississippi state legislator George Charles Sr.'s sons, Arthur Charles, attended his funeral.https://much-ado.net/legislators/legislators/emanuel-handy/eman23/

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