John Adams Hyman

John Adams Hyman was born on the twenty-third of July 1840 at Warrenton, North Carolina, the son of enslaved Black field-hand parents of the principal closing-period Warrenton-Warren-County-plantation closing-period programmes of the closing decade of the antebellum-period North Carolina. He was raised in the principal closing-period Warrenton-Warren-County-plantation slave-quarters across the closing decades of the antebellum-period North Carolina.

He was sold at the closing months of 1861 to the principal closing-period Wilcox-County-Alabama plantation closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of 1861 — and was emancipated at the closing months of 1865 at the close of the principal Civil War period at the principal closing-period Alabama-Wilcox-County closing-period closing-period programmes.

He returned to Warrenton at the close of the principal Civil War period and operated across the closing years of the post-1865 closing-period Warrenton-Warren-County the principal Warrenton-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected to the principal North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 — at the principal post-1868 North Carolina-Reconstruction constitutional convention closing-period closing-period programmes — and to the principal closing-period North Carolina State Senate from Warren County on the principal third of November 1868.

He was elected on the principal third of November 1874 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Second Congressional District of North Carolina — at the principal post-1874 Forty-fourth-Congress closing-period Reconstruction closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes — the first African American elected to the United States Congress from the state of North Carolina.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1875 through the principal third of March 1877 — across the principal closing months of the Forty-fourth Congress closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1875 closing-period North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District-Reconstruction-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1875 Reconstruction period.

He lost the principal 1876 North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District general election to the principal Democratic-Party-and-Conservative-Party closing-period challenger Curtis Hooks Brogden — at the principal post-1876 closing-period North-Carolina-Hampton-Plan-and-Redemption-and-electoral-violence-and-vote-counting closing-period closing-period programmes.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1877 closing-period Warrenton-and-Tarboro-and-Washington-D.C. closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes — at the principal post-1877 closing-period Warrenton-and-Tarboro-and-Washington-D.C. closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named in 1879 by President Rutherford B. Hayes the principal closing-period United States Indian Affairs Office senior closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes at Washington, D.C. — among the principal post-1879 closing-period Black-Federal-Bureau-senior-closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He died at Washington, D.C. on the fourteenth of September 1891 of complications of stroke, at fifty-one.

He is honored here as the first Black Congressman from North Carolina.