John McClure (judge)

John "Poker Jack" McClure

John McClure (died 1915),[1] sometimes called "Poker Jack",[2] was a politician and judge in Arkansas during Reconstruction; originally he was a lawyer from Ohio.[3]

McLure was part of Powell Clayton's inner circle. A Republican carpetbagger from the North, he came to Arkansas as a Lieutenant colonel of a black regiment. He was dismissed from the army for playing cards, gaining him his nickname "Poker Jack" from the Democrats. He became an agent of the Freedmens Bureau for Arkansas County. In 1868 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Arkansas and served until 1871.

Notes

  1. ↑ Joseph A. Ranney (1 January 2006). In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-275-98972-9.
  2. ↑ Dan Ryan (24 June 2011). Merryweather. AuthorHouse. p. 418. ISBN 978-1-4634-1445-0.
  3. ↑ John Gould Fletcher (1947). Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-55728-040-4.


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