Christopher Columbus Nash Politician

Christopher Columbus Nash (July 1, 1838 – June 29, 1922; still living in 1922, when he applied for a Confederate pension through the state of Louisiana) 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.