Prince Albert Hinton, one of the last survivors of those “good old days” when the colored brethren sat in our political conventions and whiskey was served with tin dippers from wash tubs placed on the sidewalks on Main Street on election days, died Monday night of this week. Prince Albert died from a stroke of apoplexy. He was stricken while at work in the Episcopal Cemetery, of which he was keeper, and was found about 8 o’clock Monday night. He died shortly after being removed to his home.
Prince Albert Hinton was 75 years old and served the bosses of Pasquotank County in the General Assembly of 1887. He was one of three negroes who went form this county to the state law making body in Reconstruction days, a seat in the General Assembly being one of the prices the Republican party of those days paid for the negro vote.
But the fact that white men used him to play their political game never turned Prince Albert’s head. He was always a modest, courteous and law-abiding negro and few of the present generation in Elizabeth City familiar with his humble figure were ever reminded that he once represented this majestic county that has since been represented by such illustrious solons as Eugene Scott, Miles W. Ferebee and C.A. Cooke.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., April 21, 1922
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