death_date birth_place party nationality office parents birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
date of death sabine parish , louisiana usa fusionist/democratic party american sheriff of grant parish , louisiana valentine and mary anderson nash 1 july 1838 1873 malinda williams nash christopher columbus nash
 unknown christopher columbus nash merchant ; law-enforcement officer
christopher columbus nash

christopher columbus nash -lrb- july 1 , 1838 -- june 29 , 1922 ; still living in 1922 , when he applied for a confederate pension through the state of louisiana -rrb- was a merchant and a democratic sheriff in grant parish , louisiana , who in 1873 led a company of white militiamen to regain control of the parish courthouse in colfax , which had been seized by armed african-american insurgents .
thereafter , the segregationist nash formed the first contingent of the white league in the american south during the second half of reconstruction .
