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Edmund Scarborough

Born 1840

United States

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Edmund Scarborough (May 1840 - ?) was an American minister, farmer and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Holmes County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870-1871. He was born enslaved in Greene County, Alabama in May 1840 and obtained his freedom in 1863.

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