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Nimrod Snoddy

Alabama priest and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ104623086 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nimrod Snoddy (July 4, 1821 - May 16, 1886) was an A. M. E. preacher who served in the Alabama Legislature during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 representing Greene County, Alabama. He held substantial property in 1870 and was living in Greene County, Alabama.

He was African American and was active in the A. M. E. Church in Clinton, Alabama and as an elder preacher later in life.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nimrod Snoddy” is alabama priest and politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nimrod, Snoddy and Alabama, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1821, 1886, 1876, 1870—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nimrod, Snoddy and Alabama is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104623086. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1821, 1886, 1876 and 1870.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nimrod Snoddy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.