Noah B. Cloud
Noah Bartlett Cloud | |
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| Alabama House of Representatives | |
| In office 1873–1873 | |
| Alabama Superintendent of Public Instruction | |
| In office 1865–1873 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 26, 1809 Edgefield District, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 5, 1875 (aged 66) Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Jefferson Medical College |
| Nickname | N. B. Cloud |
Noah Bartlett Cloud (January 26, 1809 – November 5, 1875) was an American educator, surgeon, and politician. He served as Alabama's "Superintendent of Public Instruction", the superintendent of public schools after the American Civil War; and served as a state representative for Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1873 in the Alabama House of Representatives.[1] As Alabama School Superintendent he sought to establish a public school system in Alabama for both white and black students.[2] He was labeled a "scalawag" by Southerners.[3]
Biography
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Noah B. Cloud was born on January 26, 1809, in Edgefield District (now Edgefield County), South Carolina.[4] He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania in 1835.[4][5] He was a member of the Whig Party, the Union Party, and then a Republican. He moved to Macon County, Alabama in 1838.[4]
Cloud served as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).[4] After the war he was appointed the first to be Alabama's "Superintendent of Public Instruction" (now Alabama State Superintendent of Education) for the Alabama State Department of Education.[2] On September 1, 1868, Cloud and University of Alabama's president Arad Simon Lakin were the subject's of a Klan cartoon published in the Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor (see image).[6] The cartoon featured images of the two educators lynched and hanging from a tree in the "City of Oaks" (or Tuscaloosa), with a KKK-labeled donkey below them, walking away.[6]
He edited the Cotton Planter magazine (later known as The American Cotton Planter and Soil of the South).[7][8] He married Mary M. Barton. He had a farm on Uchee Creek in Russell County, Alabama.[5]
Some of his correspondence as superintendent of education are extant.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, section 5". Digital History. Valentine Museum in Richmond. 2003.
- ^ a b "Book Note: A Scene in the City of Oaks: Searching for Freedom after the Civil War, by G. Ward Hubbs". May 27, 2016.
- ^ Hubbs, G. Ward (2015). Searching for Freedom After the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817318604.
- ^ a b c d Jordan, Weymouth T. (1951). "Noah B. Cloud's Activities on Behalf of Southern Agriculture". Agricultural History. 25 (2): 53–58. ISSN 0002-1482. JSTOR 3740819.
- ^ a b Jordan, Weymouth T. (1987). Ante-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country. University of Alabama Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8173-0333-4.
- ^ a b "Klan Cartoon, 1868". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
- ^ Owen, Thomas McAdory (1921). History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. pp. 557, 567.
- ^ "Dr. Cloud's Southern Rural Magazine, The American Cotton Planter and Soil of the South, (New Series) No. 3, No. 7, Montgomery, July, 1859". National Museum of American History, Smithsonian. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Q14536 - Q14537". digital.archives.alabama.gov.
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