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NKAA Entries
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Birth Year
1869
Death Year
1942
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BISHOP JAMES LEE
Person
y
Legacy Identifier
2381
Kentucky County & Region
Hopkins County - Pennyrile
Kentucky Place (Town or City)
Madisonville
Outside Kentucky Place Name
Clinton, Indiana
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Bishop, James Lee
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<p>In 1902 the Socialists Party nominated one of its first African American candidates for the U.S. Congress, Rev. James L. Bishop from Kentucky. Members of the Socialists Party had demanded that the party take a stronger stand for the rights of Negroes. <br /><br />Bishop had moved to Indiana, prior to the year 1900. He was nominated in 1902 for the race to represent the 5th District of Clinton, IN. Bishop was a coal miner, a clergyman, and a trade unionist, and president of the local Central Labor Union of Clinton, IN. James L. Bishop received 745 votes but was not successful in his bid for the U.S. Congress in 1902. [The first African American member of the Indiana Legislature was James Sidney Hinton, 1881 House of Representatives.] <br /><br />Rev. James Lee Bishop was the husband of Galveston Bishop (b. 1879 in TN); they married in 1897, according to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census. He was later married to Rosa L. Bishop (b. 1886 in WV - d. 1952 in IN), according to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census. He died January 8, 1942 in Clinton, IN [see grave stone at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55140749/james-lee-bishop" target="_blank">Find A Grave</a>]. He was the son of Charles and Angelina Bishop, who lived in Madisonville, KY [source: 1880 U.S. Federal Census]. <br /><br />For more see "Nominated for Congress," <em><a href="https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/300001942">Baltimore Afro-American</a></em>, 10/18/1902, p. 1; and <em><a href="https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/300002289">Marxism in United States History Before the Russian Revolution (1876-1917)</a></em>, by O. C. Johnson.</p>
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Migration North
Miners, Mines, and Steel Mills
Politicians, Politics, Appointments and Elections
Union Organizations
Ministers, Pastors, Preachers, Religion and Church Work