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McDowell Delaney

Virginia

19261 W Pridesville Rd
Amelia Court House, VA 23002
United States

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McDowell Delaney, a member of the House of Delegates from Amelia County from 1871 to 1873, in this portrait from Luther Porter Jackson's Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945).
McDowell Delaney, a member of the House of Delegates from Amelia County from 1871 to 1873, in this portrait from Luther Porter Jackson's Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945). University of Virginia Special Collections

McDowell Delaney (1844-1926) was born to free African American parents in Amelia County. During the Civil War he worked as a cook and teamster for the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment. He later attended a school taught by his father and managed property at the Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital in Farmville. Delaney represented Amelia in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1871 to 1873 and participated in a state convention of African Americans in 1875. He served the county as a justice of the peace, constable, and coroner. Delaney, an ordained minister, was pastor of Chester Grove Baptist Church for 35 years.

Marker: OL-12, Virginia Department of Historic Resources (2018)

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