John Hannibal White (c. 1828 – July 26, 1878) was a delegate to South Carolina's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a two-term member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives, and a state senator in South Carolina. He worked as a
blacksmith.[1]
During the Civil War he would read updates to members of his community in
York County, South Carolina.[3] A photograph of him was part of a composite image of African American "
Radical Republican" members of the South Carolina Legislature.[4]
Additional reading
South Carolina Negro Legislators: a Glorious Success: State and Local Officeholders; Biographies of Negro Representatives, 1868–1902 by
Lawrence Chesterfield Bryant, South Carolina State College, 1974