Jacob Montgomery was a sharecropper and state legislator in North Carolina. He lived in Warrenton, North Carolina.[1] He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883 and was then elected to the North Carolina Senate.[2] He was African American.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Justesen, Benjamin R. (2009). ""The Class of '83": Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly". The North Carolina Historical Review. 86 (3): 282–308. JSTOR 23523861 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ Justesen, Benjamin R. (July 2, 2012). George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807144770 – via Google Books.