| 词条 | Minnie Buckingham Harper |
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Born in Winfield, West Virginia, Harper was a resident of Keystone when she became in 1928 the first black woman legislator in the United States. She was appointed by Governor Howard M. Gore to the West Virginia House of Delegates to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband Ebenezer Howard Harper.[2][3] The McDowell County Republican Executive Committee unanimously recommended that Harper fill her husband's position.[4] She did not seek reelection at the end of her term.[1] References1. ^1 {{cite book|author1=Lean'tin L. Bracks |author2=Jessie Carney Smith |title=Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2014 |isbn=9780810885431 |pages=32–33}} 2. ^{{cite book|author1=Henry Louis Gates Jr. |author2=Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham |title=African American National Biography |publisher=Oxford University |year=2008 |isbn=9780195160192 |page=72}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Congressional Record|url=https://www.congress.gov/crec/2007/02/28/CREC-2007-02-28-pt1-PgE420-3.pdf}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=West Virginia Encyclopedia|url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/259}} External links
9 : 1886 births|1978 deaths|People from Putnam County, West Virginia|Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates|African-American state legislators in West Virginia|African-American women in politics|Women state legislators in West Virginia|West Virginia Republicans|People from Keystone, West Virginia |
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