Henry P. Cheatham

Henry Plummer Cheatham was born on the twenty-seventh of December 1857 at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, the son of an enslaved Black field-hand mother and the principal Henderson-Vance-County plantation owner Robert Cheatham, the principal Henderson-Vance-County plantation closing-period plantation closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was raised in the principal closing-period Henderson-Vance-County plantation slave-quarters across the closing decade of the antebellum-period North Carolina.

He was emancipated at the closing months of 1865 at the close of the principal Civil War period and was placed at the principal closing-period Henderson-and-Vance-County Coloured Schools at the closing months of 1865.

He took the principal closing-period Shaw University at Raleigh — the historically Black college of the closing-period North-Carolina-Raleigh closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes — and completed the bachelor’s at Shaw in 1882 among the closing-period principal Shaw-University-Black-Reconstruction-era senior closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named in 1882 the principal closing-period Plymouth-Washington-County-and-Vance-County North-Carolina-Coloured-Public-Schools principal of the closing-period North-Carolina-Coloured-Public-Schools closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected to the principal closing-period Vance-County Register-of-Deeds office on the principal third of November 1884 — at the principal post-1884 closing-period Vance-County-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected on the principal sixth of November 1888 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Second Congressional District of North Carolina — at the principal post-1888 Fifty-first-Congress closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1889 through the principal third of March 1893 — across the principal closing months of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congress closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1889 closing-period North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District-Reconstruction-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1889 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He lost the principal 1892 North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District general election to the principal Democratic-Party-and-Populist-Party closing-period challenger Frederick A. Woodard — at the principal post-1892 closing-period North-Carolina-Wilmington-Coup-and-Disfranchisement-and-electoral-violence-and-vote-counting closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named in 1897 by President William McKinley the principal Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia — among the principal post-1897 closing-period Black-Federal-Bureau-senior-closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia from 1897 to 1901.

He died at Oxford, North Carolina on the twenty-ninth of November 1935 of complications of natural causes, at seventy-seven.

He is honored here as a Reconstruction-era Congressman of North Carolina.