{{Short description|Alabama politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Adam Gachet''', sometimes written '''Adam Gashet''', was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Alabama. He represented Barbour County, Alabama.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHIOAQAAMAAJ&q=adam+gachet+montgomery|title=They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, 1800-1999|first=Richard|last=Bailey|date=August 21, 1999|publisher=Pyramid Pub.|isbn=978-0-9671883-0-0|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=African-American Legislators in Reconstruction Alabama|url=https://archives.alabama.gov/afro/AfricanAmerican%20Legislators%20in%20Reconstruction%20Alabama1867.pdf|url-status=dead|website=Alabama Department of Archives and History|access-date=2021-08-22|archive-date=2021-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183500/https://archives.alabama.gov/afro/AfricanAmerican%20Legislators%20in%20Reconstruction%20Alabama1867.pdf}}</ref> He was enslaved until 1865.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZEiAQAAMAAJ&q=adam+gachet+montgomery|title=First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction|first=Peter|last=Kolchin|date=August 21, 2008|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5535-7|via=Google Books}}</ref> He is commemorated on a historical marker listing state legislators in Alabama who were African American and served during the Reconstruction era.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lat34north.com/HistoricMarkersAL/MarkerDetail?markerID=51-162&Sequence=0&PrevNexttype=X|title=Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879 Historical Marker - Lat34North.com|website=lat34north.com|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821191312/http://lat34north.com/HistoricMarkersAL/MarkerDetail?markerID=51-162&Sequence=0&PrevNexttype=X|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== *African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 *Election Riot of 1874
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