In 1868 he was appointed clerk of the Circuit Court for Jefferson County, Florida.[4] The following year he was named "superintendent of common schools". After a two-year term he became postmasterofMonticello, Florida, county seat of Jefferson County. In 1871 he was reappointed to the school position, renewed again when the two-year term ran out. He went on to win a seat in the Florida state legislature[2] as a state senator[5] serving from 1868 until 1879.[6]
In 1880 he was made postmaster of Punta Gorda, Florida. He retired to Tampa in 1896, due to failing health, and died in 1902.[3]
His met his wife Stella, while both worked as servants in Tallahassee.[7] His daughter-in-law Christina Meacham (1865-1927) was a teacher and school principal in Tampa for whom the Meacham Early Childhood Center is named.[7]
^ abLincove, David A.; Eric Foner (2000). Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. p. 309. ISBN0-313-29199-3.
^ abFederal Writers' Project (1993). McDonough, Gary W. (ed.). The Florida Negro. A Federal Writers' Project Legacy. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 99–100. ISBN0878055886.
^Ortiz, Paul (2006). Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Elections of 1920. University of California Press. p. 24. ISBN0-520-23946-6.
