J. Hendrix McLane

J. Hendrix McLane (born March 23, 1848 in Jackson County, Georgia[1] – died 1893) was an American politician. He ran for governor of South Carolina in the 1882 South Carolina gubernatorial election as a Greenback Labor Party candidate. He belonged to several political parties during his career. He advocated for the rights of African Americans.[2] He also campaigned for white agrarian poor of the Southeastern United States.[3]

Yale University has a collection of his papers.[1]

References

1. "Collection: John Augustus Hendrix McLane papers | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu.
2. Rome, Steven (January 1, 2020). "The Apostle of Dissent: J. Hendrix McLane's Fight Against History in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina". MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections.
3. Kantrowitz, Stephen (2000). "Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, "The Farmers," and the Limits of Southern Populism". The Journal of Southern History. 66 (3): 497–524. doi:10.2307/2587866 – via JSTOR.

Further reading

• Seligmann, Herbert Jacob (July 17, 1965). "A South Carolina independent of the 1880's: J. Hendrix McLane" – via Google Books.
• "Bullets, Bourbons, and Benjamins in the Unmaking of Southern Populism," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 22:1 (spring 2005), 1-8.