Joseph E. Monroe (born c.1830) was a state legislator in Mississippi.
Joseph Monroe was born in Kentucky. He represented Coahoma County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1877.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 151 He was a member of the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Monroe and his wife, Jane, had two children. She was listed as a widow in 1900.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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