About Milton Coates
Lived 1851 – 1892 (aged 40–41). Milton Coates was an American legislator and politician.
Milton Coates was a cotton weigher who served as a state legislator and post office clerk in Mississippi. He represented Warren County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885. A Republican, he lived on south Farmer Street in Vicksburg.
He was a defendant in a lawsuit regarding the weighing of cotton by the city of Vicksburg. His appointment as a post office clerk in Vicksburg by Henry Roberts Pease elicited objections because Coates was African American.
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Who was Milton Coates?
American politician
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Milton Coates was born in 1851 in Vicksburg.
When did Milton Coates die?
Milton Coates died in 1892 in Vicksburg.
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Milton Coates was a legislator and politician.
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Milton Coates was American.
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