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Edward Ralph May
Edward Ralph May (May 10, 1819 – August 2, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the only delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to cast a vote in favor of permitting African American suffrage.
==May's early life and education==
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, May entered Amherst College at age 14, then transferred to Yale University, where he graduated in 1838.〔''Amherst College Biographical Record'', (Centennial Edition, 1921), Class of 1837 ().〕 After teaching school and practicing law in Norwich, Connecticut, he moved in 1843 to Angola, Indiana,〔''Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly'', Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1980, v. 1, p. 267.〕 a newly founded town in Steuben County with a reputation for anti-slavery sympathies.〔The name "Angola" derives from the region in Africa (now the Republic of Angola) from which many slaves were taken. See ''History of Northeast Indiana'', Chicago & New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1920, v. 1, p. 311. The town was founded in 1838 by Thomas Gale, a native of New York who was also a Spiritualist and vocal abolitionist. (See Cindy Bevington, ''Angola: pioneers, progress and passionate beliefs'' ). Steuben County also had an active Underground Railroad movement in the 1850s. ''Id.'', pp. 191-192. By 1862, however, a reaction to the anti-slavery movement began to show itself in Steuben County. Invited to speak in Angola, Sojourner Truth was arrested for violating Indiana's constitutional ban on African Americans entering the state. ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth'', pp. 139-143 at (). She was acquitted. See ''Reconciling Truth: The Ordeal of Sojourner Truth in Indiana'' at ()〕 He was the county's prosecuting attorney for two years (1847–1848).〔''History of Steuben County, Indiana'', Chicago:Inter-State Publishing Company, 1885, p. 334.〕 A Democrat, May was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1849 and in 1850 as the joint representative for Steuben and DeKalb counties.〔See ''History of DeKalb County, Indiana'', Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1885, p. 319, col. 2. Representatives were elected for one-year terms under the Indiana Constitution of 1816. See (Indiana Constitution of 1816, Article III, Section 3 ).〕 Under the law adopted for calling the Constitutional Convention of 1850, May's election to the legislature in 1850 automatically made him a delegate to the convention.〔(''The Indiana Historian'', Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Bureau June 2002, p. 4, col. 2. ) May's Senator-delegate counterpart was Robert Work of DeKalb County, who was also a Democrat. ''Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly'', v. 1, p. 429, col. 1.〕
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