{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Orphan|date=October 2021}} '''Edward Odom''' (born 1853) was an American politician and barber.
He was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1872.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoX1DwAAQBAJ&q=edward+odom+barbour+county&pg=PA288|title=Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County|first=Bertis D.|last=English|date=August 22, 2020|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=9780817320690|via=Google Books}}</ref> His 1874 election as a legislator from Barbour County, and that of fellow state representatives Adam Gachet and A. E. Williams, were overturned in the house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GdBAQAAMAAJ&q=ed+odom+barbour+county&pg=PA72|title=Journal|first=Alabama Legislature House of|last=Representatives|date=August 22, 1876|via=Google Books}}</ref>
He testified about violent organized attacks on Republican voters in Eufaula, Alabama, arrests, jailings, and intimidation. He testified that Republican meetings were disrupted by Democrats and Republican leaders forced to leave the area due to threats.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qq0TAAAAYAAJ&q=edward+odom+barbour+county&pg=PA582|title=Report ... to Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... to Vote Had Been Denied Or Abridged|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and|last=Elections|date=August 22, 1877|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==See also== *Election Riot of 1874 *African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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