Milton Coates
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Milton Coates
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Milton Coates was a cotton weigher who served as a state legislator and post office clerk in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885. A Republican, he lived on south Farmer Street in Vicksburg. He was a defendant in a lawsuit regarding the weighing of cotton by the city of Vicksburg. His appointment as a post office clerk in Vicksburg by Henry Roberts Pease elicited objections because Coates was African American.
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2023-11-03T06:47:11Z
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