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Frank Moss (Virginia politician)

1823–

United States

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Frank Moss (born c. 1823, died c. 1883–84) was a free-born nineteenth-century African-American farmer and politician from Buckingham County, Virginia. He was the only African-American in Virginia to be a member of the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates.

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