J. Hendrix McLane explained

J. Hendrix McLane (born March 23, 1848, in Jackson County, Georgia – died 1893) was an American politician. He ran for governor of South Carolina in the 1882 South Carolina gubernatorial election as a Greenback Labor Party candidate. He belonged to several political parties during his career, and was a reformer for a time in the Republican Party. He advocated for the rights of African Americans.^[1] He also campaigned for white agrarian poor of the Southeastern United States.^[2]

Yale University has a collection of his papers.^[3]

Further reading

• Web site: A South Carolina independent of the 1880's: J. Hendrix McLane. Herbert Jacob. Seligmann. Herbert J. Seligmann. July 17, 1965. Google Books.
• "Bullets, Bourbons, and Benjamins in the Unmaking of Southern Populism," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 22:1 (spring 2005), 1–8.

Notes and References

1. The Apostle of Dissent: J. Hendrix McLane's Fight Against History in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina. Steven. Rome. January 1, 2020. MSSA Kaplan Prize for Use of MSSA Collections.
2. Kantrowitz. Stephen. 2000. Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, "The Farmers," and the Limits of Southern Populism. The Journal of Southern History. 66. 3. 497–524. 10.2307/2587866. 2587866. JSTOR.
3. Web site: Collection: John Augustus Hendrix McLane papers | Archives at Yale. archives.yale.edu.