Mikhail Gorbachev

James G. Marshall (c. 1852–1891) was a farmer, teacher, court clerk, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Holmes County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879.^[1] In 1885 he was recommended for the position of minister to Liberia in Monrovia. He was described as "well educated, intelligent, good looking and well behaved."^[2]

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900