{"id":51445,"date":"2017-02-08T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51445"},"modified":"2017-02-08T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:48:24","slug":"lt-stephen-atkins-swails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51445","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstreenews.com\/news\/lt-stephen-atkins-swails\/article_5ae9f336-ed39-11e6-8892-f7c318177fa0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstreenews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kingstree News<\/a><br \/>\nKingstree, South Carolina<br \/>\n2017-02-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cassandra-williams-rush-a3bb6aa2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cassandra Williams Rush<\/strong><\/a>, Special to The News<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstreenews.com\/news\/lt-stephen-atkins-swails\/article_5ae9f336-ed39-11e6-8892-f7c318177fa0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/kingstreenews.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/6\/df\/6df297b2-ed39-11e6-9030-a78118f0ecbf\/5899cbd93883b.image.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails<br \/>\nPhoto by Ronald Walton<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_College_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral College<\/a>, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment\" target=\"_blank\">54th Massachusetts Regiment<\/a>, was the Mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingstree,_South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">Kingstree<\/a>. He was born February 23, 1832 in the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia,_Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania<\/a> and died May 17, 1900 in the Kingstree.<\/p>\n<p>Swails was biracial and born a free black whose complexion was so light he was often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">mistaken as white<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstreenews.com\/news\/lt-stephen-atkins-swails\/article_5ae9f336-ed39-11e6-8892-f7c318177fa0.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Kingstree News Kingstree, South Carolina 2017-02-07 Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[26161,26160,26159,1449,26162],"class_list":["post-51445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-cassandra-williams-rush","tag-kingstree","tag-kingstree-news","tag-south-carolina","tag-stephen-atkins-swails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51447,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions\/51447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}