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1980–
Jesse Chism (born March 4, 1980) is an American politician. He is a Democrat representing District 85 in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
1946–2026
Jesse Crenshaw (September 23, 1946 – April 26, 2026) was an American politician and lawyer from Kentucky. He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 77th district from 1993 to 2015. He was first elected to the house in 1992 when…
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Jesse Dwight Locker (May 31, 1891, College Hill, Cincinnati – April 10, 1955, Monrovia, Liberia) was an attorney, politician and, when he was appointed the American ambassador to Liberia, the second African American appointed as ambassador. His father,…
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Jesse Chisholm Duke (March 7, 1853 – January 23, 1916) was a religious and political leader in Alabama who established and edited the Baptist Montgomery Herald newspaper and served as a Selma University trustee. He advocated for civil rights for African…
Biography
Jesse Dungee (circa 1812 - August 1884) was a shoemaker, leeching practitioner, minister, community leader, and state legislator in Virginia. He was a Republican during his state legislative service. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1871…
1837–1860
Jesse Ewing Glasgow Jr. (c. 1823 – 20 December 1860) was an African-American intellectual from Philadelphia, who studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1858 to 1860. He authored the radical pamphlet on John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid in 1859.
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Jesse Freeman Boulden (October 8, 1820 – March 6, 1899) was a Baptist pastor and politician in Chicago and Mississippi. He founded churches including Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives during the…
1879–1949
Jesse Graves (1879–1949), also known as Jessie Graves or Jesse A. Graves, was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he appeared in over 100 films. Some of the more notable include: After the Thin Man in 1936, which stars…
1926–2012
Jesse Hill Jr. (May 30, 1926 – December 17, 2012) was a Black American civil rights activist. He was active in the civic and business communities of the city for more than five decades.
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Jesse James McCrary Jr. (September 16, 1937 – October 29, 2007) was an American lawyer from the U.S. state of Florida. A civil rights activist, he entered state politics and served as Secretary of State of Florida for five months from 1978 to 1979,…
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Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Jesse Jackson and Hosea Williams with a group of people standing in front of the US Department of Agriculture building during a Poor People's Campaign protest. There is a white fabric sign hanging in front of the windows…
April 22, 1987
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black and white photograph depicts Jesse Jackson at a podium. Wearing a dark suit and tie, he has a white pocket square and white circular pin in his lapel. in front of him is a wood podium with multiple microphones. Behind him on the wall in a large…
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Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is an American former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 2nd congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2012.
May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis image depicts Reverend Jesse Jackson in Resurrection City. Jackson is pictured in profile. Wearing a dark blue shirt, open at the neck, with a necklace of square wooden beads, he gazes to the viewer's left. There are several indistinct individuals in…
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Jesse Lee Douglas Sr. (August 19, 1930 – February 17, 2021) was an American civil rights activist. He was a key figure in the planning of the successful Selma to Montgomery march.
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Jesse Lawson (May 18, 1856 – November 8, 1927) was an American lawyer, educator, and activist. He served as an officer of the Afro-American Council, where he promoted racial justice and anti-Jim Crow legislation to the public and before Congress. He was…
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Jesse Lee Peterson (born May 22, 1949) is an American far-right talk show host, political commentator, and Christian minister. As a black American raised in the Jim Crow era, Peterson has been criticized for his staunchly traditionalist political and…
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Jesse M. H. Graham (February 8, 1864 – July 25, 1930) was a teacher, newspaper editor, postal worker, and state representative in Tennessee. A Republican, he was elected to represent Montgomery County, Tennessee in 1896 and was the only African American…
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Jesse Clark White (born June 23, 1934) is an American educator, politician and former athlete from the state of Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 37th secretary of state of Illinois from 1999 to 2023. He was the longest-serving…
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Jessica Holmes (born 1983/1984) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 18th North Carolina State Auditor from 2023 to 2024, having filled the vacancy caused by the resignation of Beth Wood.
1927–2013
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll; 23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013) was a Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of black and Asian literature, and a women's and community rights activist. She…
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Jessie Menifield Rattley (May 4, 1929 – March 2, 2001) served as the mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1986 to 1990, the first woman and first African-American to hold the mayorship.
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Jessie Mae Brown Beavers (March 18, 1923 – September 6, 1989) was an American journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She was an editor at the Los Angeles Sentinel from 1949 to 1989, and served sixteen years on the city's Human Relations Commission,…
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