Beacons of Light: The Education of the Afro-Texan
Legislator As Teacher
HOLLAND, WILLIAM H. (1841-1907). William H. Holland, soldier, legislator, and teacher, was born a slave in Marshall in 1841.
MOORE, R. J. (1844-?). R. J. Moore, a black member of the Texas House of Representatives during the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth legislatures from Washington County, was born in 1844 in Navasota, Texas, possibly of mixed racial ancestry. He studied at Hearne Academyqv and later taught school at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where he was postmaster and a Washington County commissioner. Moore attended the Colored Men's Convention (see BLACK STATE CONVENTIONS) at Brenham in 1873
SMITH, ROBERT LLOYD (1861-1942). Robert Lloyd Smith, politician and businessman, was born a free black in 1861 at Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Avery Institute in South Carolina and the University of South Carolina; he received his B.A. degree from Atlanta University. He left his native state and came to Texas sometime during the late
WYATT, GEORGE W. (ca. 1848-?). George W. Wyatt, who represented Waller and Fort Bend counties during the Eighteenth Legislature, was born in Waller County, Texas, around 1848. Wyatt was a schoolteacher in Hempstead when he won election to the Texas House of Representatives in 1882. He was one of two
Robert (R.) J. Evans
Jeremiah J. (J.J.) Hamilton
Lloyd Henry (Mac) McCabe
Edward (Ed A.) Patton
William Reynolds (Renalds
Walter E. Ripton (Ripetoe/Riptoe)
George Thompson (G.T.) Ruby
James H. (J.H.) Stewart
James H. (J.H.) Washington
Allen W. Wilder