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John A. Chestnut (also spelled Chesnut) was a delegate to the 1868 Constitutional Convention of South Carolina. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

His grandfather was freed by Col. James Chestnut.

He, S. G. W. Dill, and Justus Kendall Jillson represented Kershaw County at the convention.

References

1. Carolina, South (1868). "The Constitution of South Carolina: Adopted April 16, 1868, and the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly Passed at the Special Session of 1868[-1871] Together with the Military Orders Therein Re-enacted".
2. "Documents". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1). Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. January 1920.
3. Hume, Richard L.; Gough, Jerry B. (October 2008). Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. ISBN 9780807134702.

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