A. E. P. Albert

Rev. Aristide Elphonso Peter Albert Sr. (December 10, 1853 – September 6, 1910), was an American newspaper editor, theologian, professor, Methodist minister, physician, and surgeon. He edited the South-Western Christian Advocate newspaper.

Biography A. E. P. Albert was born on December 10, 1853, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. His father was Pierre Albert from Bordeaux, France (some sources state he was from Louisiana), and his mother Elizabeth was of African heritage and enslaved by a French man in Louisiana. After the Union Army captured New Orleans during the American Civil War, he ran away from home and attended private school taught by William Barner. By 1891, Albert was a professor of theology at New Orleans University, and served as the president of the board of trustees of the university.

He died on September 6, 1910, of tuberculosis (or consumption) at age 57 at his home in the Carrollton neighborhood at 1420 Lowerline Street, New Orleans. A profile of him is included in the book The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (1891).