Pierre Caliste Landry

Biography

Pierre Caliste Landry (April 19, 1841 – December 22, 1921) was an American born into slavery, who went on to become an attorney, Methodist Episcopal minister, mayor, newspaper editor, and state legislator in Louisiana. He was elected in 1868 as mayor of Donaldsonville, making him the first African American to be elected mayor in the United States (Monroe Baker had been appointed mayor of St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1867 by governor Benjamin Flanders).

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