William C. Payne ( – November 3, 1898) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas, in 1879 and 1881.
He died November 3, 1898, in a police wagon after falling sick on 9th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the police were called. He was picked up by a police patrol wagon but died before they reached the hospital around 1:30 in the morning; an inquest found the cause to be heart disease. At the time of his death he was living in Rob Roy where he was returned to be buried.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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