Thomas W. Stringer
Thomas W. Stringer (1815–1893) was an American Christian minister in the A.M.E. Church and a state senator in Mississippi. He helped organize churches, schools, and fraternal organizations. He was elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1869. Stringer was born in Maryland, and raised at North Buxton, Ontario, a settlement of Black Canadians. He later moved to Ohio, where he was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the American Civil War. He was an organizer at Mississippi's 1868 constitutional convention. He is buried at the Vicksburg City Cemetery