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Shed Dungee
Member From: 1879 - 1882
- Birth Date: December 25, 1831 Birth Place:Cumberland County, Virginia
- Death Date: March 30, 1900
- Gender: Male Race: African American
- Spouse: Elizabeth; Mary Agnes Coleman (m. January 7, 1869)
- Children: 5+
- Religion: Baptist
- Education: School for Freedmen in Virginia
- Military Service:
- Occupation/Profession: Shoemaker, Farmer, and Preacher
- Memberships/Affiliations: Slate River Colored Baptist Association, Baptist Aid Society in Buckingham County (trustee),
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Additional Info Links:
Bio from Encyclopedia Virginia
Bio from Virginia's Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
- Bio: Shed Dungee represented Buckingham and Cumberland counties for two terms in the House of Delegates (1879–1882). Born enslaved, Dungee worked as a cobbler and later became a licensed preacher. He took his seat in 1879, thirty-two years after he reportedly accompanied his master for a term in the General Assembly. Dungee introduced an unsuccessful bill to end the restriction on interracial marriage, on the grounds that outlawing such intermarriage violated the U.S. Constitution. Despite pressure from President Rutherford B. Hayes to support the Funders, he sided with Readjusters in the debate over how to deal with Virginia’s crippling pre-war debt. After winning reelection in 1881 he did not seek office in 1883, though he remained active in the Readjuster and Republican parties during the 1890s. Dungee died in Cumberland County in 1900.
| Session | District | District Number | Party | Leadership | Committees |
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| 1879-1880 | Cumberland and Buckingham | Debt Payer/Readjuster and Republican | Officers and Offices at the Capitol Committee Public Property Committee |
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| 1881-1882 | Cumberland and Buckingham | Debt Payer/Readjuster and Republican | Officers and Offices at the Capitol Committee Public Property Retrenchment and the Economy Roads and Internal Navigation |
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