About Christopher Columbus Nash
Lived 1838 – 1922 (aged 83). Christopher Columbus Nash was an American businessperson.
Christopher Columbus Nash (July 1, 1838 – June 29, 1922) was a Louisiana merchant and Democratic sheriff. In 1873, Nash led a company of white militiamen in the Colfax Massacre to take the courthouse in Colfax, from armed African-Americans. Three white men were killed; the number of African-Americans killed is estimated to have been between 60 and 150.
Nash participated in the formation of the White League, a white supremacist organization that claimed to defend a "hereditary civilization and Christianity menaced by a stupid Africanization". He was later buried in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
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American businessman and politician
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Christopher Columbus Nash was born on 1 July 1838 in Sabine Parish.
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Christopher Columbus Nash died on 29 June 1922.
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Christopher Columbus Nash was a businessperson.
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Christopher Columbus Nash was American.
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