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Sebron Williams Dawson

state legislator in Arkansas, 1889-91

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ107503600 ↗
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Sebron Williams Dawson was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1889 and 1891. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas and was a Republican.

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“Sebron Williams Dawson” enters the record as state legislator in Arkansas, 1889-91. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sebron, Williams and Dawson can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sebron Williams Dawson” 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.