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Robert John Palmer (born January 18, 1849 – May 12, 1928) was a tailor and politician born into slavery in South Carolina.


Career

Palmer was a state representative from 1876 to 1878 and had a tailor shop opposite the post office on Main Street in
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Personal life

He had a daughter, Rosina C. Palmer, with Julia Simons in Columbia in the 1870s. He subsequently married Adelaide Perry and had eight children. After Adelaide died he married Leila P. Bruce January 12, 1913. He is the great-great-grandfather of stand-up comedian
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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 ...


Notes

# There are multiple reported birth and death dates of Palmer all within the same month.


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Findagrave entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Robert John African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in South Carolina 1849 births 1928 deaths 20th-century African-American people 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly