Edmund Scarborough (May 1840 - ?) was a minister, farmer and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Holmes County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870-1871.

He was born enslaved in Greene County, Alabama in May 1840 and obtained his freedom in 1863. Eric Foner documented him as Edmond Scarborough and another newspaper listed him as Edward Scarborough.

Edmund Scarborough (Mississippi politician)

He was married to Martha in 1857 with whom he was listed as living with in Holmes County in both the 1900 and 1910 census.

Edmund Scarborough (Mississippi politician)

In 1866 he built, along with his brother-in-law, the first negro Methodist church in the county.

Edmund Scarborough (Mississippi politician)

He served in the Mississippi House with William B. Williams and Cicero Mitchell from Holmes County. At the 1875 Holmes County Republican Convention he was assigned the position of Cotton Weigher.

After his service to the legislature he was a Deacon Elder of his church in which position he was reported to have baptised 500 people.

He died sometime after 1912 at which point he was recorded as owning multiple urban lots and other property.

See also

African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives

People from Greene County, Alabama

People from Holmes County, Mississippi

1840 births

Year of death missing

African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era

African-American state legislators in Alabama

American freedmen

African Methodist Episcopal Church clergy

19th-century American Methodist ministers

Methodists from Mississippi