- Comment: Surly this is the same as John Patterson Sampson - any reason to think there was another? KylieTastic (talk) 13:01, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
J. P. Sampson and John Sampson should link here
Is this John Patterson Sampson?
John P. Sampson was a state legislator in North Carolina. He was African American.
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era