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Franklin Sinclair
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Franklin Sinclair (unknown – April 16, 1868) was an African American teacher and political activist in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He was assassinated the day before an election in which he was the Republican nominee for a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives, of which he would have been one of the first Black members.
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