T. B. Stamps

T. B. Stamps (March 10, 1846 - November 27, 1898) was a businessman, coroner, and newspaper editor who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.

Early life

Stamps was born March 10, 1846, in Monticello, Mississippi. and was selected to be on the State Central Committee serving on the sub-executive committee.

Stamps was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives and served from 1870 until 1872.

In 1874 he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention representing the seventeenth ward and he served on the Committee on Peace and Order. Days after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Stamps along with Aristede Dejoie attended a play in a previously segregated St. Charles Theatre, an event that was reported in newspapers across the country. At the 1879 Louisiana State Constitutional Convention, Stamps along with other delegates P. B. S. Pinchback, T. T. Allain and Henry Demas pushed for equal opportunities in higher learning which eventually resulted in the founding of the Southern University.

Stamps also served as coroner, represented Jefferson Parish as an agent of the New Orleans Louisianian