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Hannibal C. Carter
20th and 22nd Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office September 1, 1873 – October 20, 1873
Governor	Ridgely C. Powers
Preceded by	Hiram R. Revels
Succeeded by	M. M. McLeod
In office November 13, 1873 – January 4, 1874
Governor	Ridgely C. Powers
Preceded by	M. M. McLeod
Succeeded by	James Hill
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the Warren County district
In office 1872–1873
In office 1876–1877
Personal details
Born	(1835-02-00)February , 1835 New Albany, Indiana
Died	June 1, 1904(1904-06-01) (aged 69) Chicago, Illinois

Hannibal Caesar Carter (February 1835–June 1, 1904) was the Secretary of State of Mississippi from September 1 to October 20, 1873, and from November 13, 1873, to January 4, 1874, serving the first term after being appointed when Hiram R. Revels resigned. He also served two non-consecutive terms representing Warren County in the Mississippi House of Representatives, the first from 1872 to 1873 the second from 1876 to 1877, both times as a Republican. In later years he changed his affiliation to Democratic. He was one of several African Americans to serve as Mississippi Secretary of State during the Reconstruction era. Carter was born in New Albany, Indiana, in February 1835, to a free Black family, then moving to Toronto, Canada for his early childhood. He and his brother, Edward E. Carter, served in the Native Guards of Louisiana and then both became Captains in the United States Coloured Troops.His father was George Washington Carter, free Black businessman, Freemason, and active member of the Underground Railroad.

He helped establish the Freedmen's Oklahoma Immigration Association in Chicago in 1881.

He spent his later life in Chicago, Illinois, where he then died at home June 1, 1904 at the age of 69.

References

1. ^ "Hannibal C. Carter – Against All Odds".
2. "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". Secretary of State. June 21, 1900 – via Google Books.
3. The History of the Negro Vote in Mississippi. Loyola University Chicago eCommons. 1957. p. 95. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
4. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 461.
5. Hosemann, Delbert (2012). Mississippi Official and Statistical Register Blue Book 2012-2016 (PDF) (2014 ed.). Mississippi: Secretary of State - State of Mississippi. pp. 742–774.
6. ^ Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. 1924. p. 170.
7. "21 Aug 1875, 4 - The Vicksburg Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
8. ^ "Hannibal C. Carter Death 1904". The Appeal (Saint Paul, Minnesota). 11 June 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 1 August 2020 – via newspapers.com.
9. "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". 1924.
10. National Archives pension records
11. Pension records National Archives
12. Peters, Pamela R. (July 6, 2017). The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. McFarland. p. 79. ISBN 9780786450626 – via Google Books.
13. Peters, Pamela R. (July 6, 2017). The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. McFarland. p. 78. ISBN 9780786450626 – via Google Books.
14. Johnson, Hannibal B. (January 1, 2005). "The All-Black Towns in Oklahoma".

• 1835 births
• 1904 deaths
• Secretaries of state of Mississippi
• Politicians from Chicago
• Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
• African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
• Democratic Party (United States) politicians
• Union army soldiers
• 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature