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L. J. Maxwell (born c. 1851) was a state legislator in Arkansas. A Republican, he represented
Jefferson County, Arkansas Jefferson County, officially the County of Jefferson, is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas in the area known as the Arkansas Delta that extends west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson County consists of fi ...
in the
Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House has 100 members elected from an equal number of constituencies across the state. Each distr ...
in 1874 and 1875. Another African-American Legislator Ned Hill also served in the House from Jefferson County for the same two-year period. The following year in 1876, Maxwell ran for State Senator but lost to George Haycock.


Biography

In 1883 Maxwell represented Jefferson County as a delegate at the State Convention. The same year he was appointed as the railway postal clerk. In 1894 he made another run for representative, but was unsuccessful.


See also

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African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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1850s births Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives Date of death unknown United States Postal Service people African-American state legislators in Arkansas People from Jefferson County, Arkansas African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era 19th-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly {{Arkansas-politician-stub