# Adam Gachet

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{{Short description|Alabama politician}}
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'''Adam Gachet''', sometimes written '''Adam Gashet''', was a [Baptist](/source/Baptist) minister and state legislator in Alabama. He represented [Barbour County, Alabama](/source/Barbour_County%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/African_American_officeholders_from_the_end_of_the_Civil_War_until_before_1900)
*[Election Riot of 1874](/source/Election_Riot_of_1874)

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