David Foote Rivers
David Foote Rivers was an African-American theologian and politician. He served as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for Fayette County from 1883 to 1884. He was reelected but was forced to flee the county due to rising racist violence, and he taught at his alma mater, Roger Williams University, in Nashville, Tennessee. Rivers became the pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1890s, and he later served as the pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Washington, D.C..
