Thomas W. Stringer (1815–1893) was an American Christian minister in the A.M.E. Church and a state senator in Mississippi. He helped organize churches, schools, and fraternal organizations. He was elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1869[1][2] and served from 1870 until 1871.[3][4]

Stringer was born in Maryland,[1] and raised at North Buxton, Ontario, a settlement of Black Canadians.[2] He later moved to Ohio, where he was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[1]

He moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the American Civil War.[5] He was an organizer at Mississippi's 1868 constitutional convention.[6]

He is buried at the Vicksburg City Cemetery.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Sewell, George A.; Dwight, Margaret L. (November 19, 1984). Mississippi Black History Makers. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604733907 – via pages 49-51.
  2. 1 2 Buxton Historical Society. "Rev. Thomas W. Stringer (1815-1897)". Buxton National Historic Site & Museum.
  3. ↑ Foner, Eric (1 August 1996). Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. LSU Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8071-2082-8. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
  4. ↑ Work, Monroe N.; Staples, Thomas S.; Wallace, H. A.; Miller, Kelly; McKinlay, Whitefield; Lacy, Samuel E.; Smith, R. L.; McIlwaine, H. R. (1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 73. doi:10.2307/2713503. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698.
  5. ↑ Jackson, David H. Jr. (2013). "Stringer, Thomas W." Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.37963. ISBN 9780195301731.
  6. ↑ "Buxton National Historic Site & Museum".
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