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William A. Bird

state legislator in Florida

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ123588525 ↗
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William A. Bird, last name sometimes spelled Byrd, was a Christian minister and state legislator in Florida. He represented Jefferson County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives in 1883 and 1885.

He was a presiding elder of the Pensacola Florida District Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.).

He was an incorporator of the Divinity School in Jacksonville, Florida.

His post office was listed at Monticello.

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“William A. Bird” enters the record as state legislator in Florida. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Bird and state can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883, 1885—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Bird and state.
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This entry incorporates text from “William A. Bird” 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.