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Burrell James

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Burrell S. James was a state legislator in South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives. His photograph was included in a montage of "Radical Republican" South Carolina state legislators. He represented Sumter County, South Carolina. He was African American. He married. He was one of the incorporators of the Sumter Land & Joint Stock Loan Association. He was listed in an 1887 A.M.E. publication as involved in church work in Marion, North Carolina.

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