George Lawrence Mabson

George Lawrence Mabson (1846 – October 4, 1885) was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina State Senate, as well as the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1875.[1]

George Lawrence Mabson was born in 1846 in Wilmington, North Carolina.[2] He was the son of a black woman, Eliza Moore, and a prominent white man, George W. Mabson.[1] His brother was William P. Mabson, who was also a politician.

In the 1854, he was sent to Boston to attend school.[3] During the Civil War, Mabson first served in the United States Navy and then joined Company G, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in February 1864 and mustered out in Clarksville, Texas, a full Command Sergeant.[1][4] After earning a degree from Howard University Law School, he became the first black lawyer in North Carolina.[1] He was also active in the Republican Party.[2] In 1870, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.[1] He was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in 1872 representing New Hanover.[5]

He was the nephew of William B. Gould and correspond with him frequently during the Civil War.[6][1] In the 1880s, a child who was likely either his son or nephew lived with and worked for Gould in Dedham, Massachusetts.[6]

Mabson was elected president of the J. C. Abbott Post 15 chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic when it organized in Wilmington in 1884.[7]

Mabson died on October 4, 1885, at his home in Wilmington,[8] and was buried at Pine Forest Cemetery in Wilmington.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gould IV 2002, p. xxii.
  2. 1 2 Reid 2008, p. 384.
  3. ↑ Reid 2008, p. 314.
  4. ↑ "Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From The State of Massachusetts", available at Fold3 by Ancestry.com. Note: Listed as "Com. Sergt."
  5. ↑ "General Assembly - Senate". Tri-Weekly Era. 3 September 1872. p. 4. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  6. 1 2 Gould IV 2002, p. 30.
  7. ↑ Reid 2008, p. 309.
  8. ↑ "Local Dots". The Morning Star. Vol. XXXVII, no. 12. October 6, 1885. p. 1.

Works cited

  • Gould IV, William B. (2002). Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (paperback ed.). Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4708-3.
  • Reid, Richard M. (2008). Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-3174-3.
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