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Richard H. Cain
1825–1887
United States
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Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was an American minister, bishop, abolitionist and politician. After the American Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. Cain served as a United States representative from South Carolina from 1873 to 1875 and 1877 to 1879.
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