He served as a delegate from Darlington County to the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention.[4][1] He was a Republican.[1]
He married Martha Jackson and had several children.[1] He helped organize the Negro Baptist Convention of South Carolina and served as its president for 40 years.[1] He also served as a moderator for the Pee Dee Baptist Association and on the Board of Trustees Member at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina and Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina.[1] He was the first president of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina.[5] He is buried at the Darlington Memorial Cemetery.[6] The Library of Congress has an uncut sheet of Union Republican Tickets for B. F. Whittemore, Brockenton, Jordan Lang, and Richard Humbert (written as Richard Hunbird) for a convention.[7]
