James H. Piles

James H. Piles was a teacher, school principal, lawyer, and state legislator in Mississippi.

He was born c. 1842 in Springfield, Ohio, and before attending Oberlin College, worked as a barber. He left Mississippi after Reconstruction ended and worked in Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee.

He represented Panola County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1875 as a Republican. He served as Assistant Secretary of State in 1875.

See also

African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

People from Springfield, Ohio

Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives

1840s births

Year of death missing

African-American schoolteachers

African-American state legislators in Mississippi

Ohio lawyers

Schoolteachers from Ohio

African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era

People from Panola County, Mississippi

19th-century American lawyers

Barbers

Oberlin College alumni

19th-century African-American lawyers