Wyatt Outlaw (1820 – February 26, 1870) was the first African-American elected to be Town Commissioner and Constable of the town of Graham, North Carolina. He was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan on February 26, 1870. His death, along with the assassination of white Republican State Senator John W. Stephens at the Caswell County Courthouse, provoked Governor William Woods Holden to declare martial law in Alamance and Caswell Counties, resulting in the Kirk-Holden War of 1870.
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1820
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26 February 1870 (aged 49)
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