Thomas P. Beard
AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY LEADER (1837-1918)
Thomas Payce Beard; T. P. Beard
Thomas Payce Beard (December 28, 1837 – December 4, 1918) was a leader of the African American community, a Republican Party organizer, and part of a contested election in Georgia during the post-American Civil War Reconstruction Era. He contested the election of his Democratic Party opponent Stephen A.