George Lawrence Mabson

George Lawrence Mabson was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina State Senate, as well as the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1875.[1]

Mabson was the son of a black woman, Eliza Moore, and a prominent white man, George W. Mabson, in Wilmington, North Carolina.[1] In the 1850s, he was sent to Boston to attend school.[1] During the Civil War, Mabson first served in the United States Navy and then joined the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment.[1]

After the war he became a political activist and was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor William W. Holden.[2] After earning a degree from Howard University Law School in 1871, he became the first black lawyer in North Carolina.[1][2] In 1874, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.[1][2]

He was the nephew of William B. Gould and corresponded with him frequently during the Civil War.[2][1] In the 1880s, a child who is likely either his son or nephew lived with and worked for Gould in Dedham, Massachusetts.[2]

References
  1. Gould IV 2002, p. xxii.
  2. Gould IV 2002, p. 30.

Works cited
  • Gould IV, William B. (2002). Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (paperback ed.). Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4708-3.
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