Downing, Henry Francis, 1846-1928

found: BlackPast.org, via WWW, Apr. 16, 2010:(Downing, Henry Francis; b. 1846 in New York City; d. Feb. 19, 1928; sailor, politician, playwright, and novelist)

found: OCLC, Apr. 16, 2010(hdg.: Downing, H. F. ; Downing, Henry F. ; Downing, Henry Francis ; Downing, Henry Francis, 1846-1928 ; Downing, Henry Francis, 1851- ; usage: Henry F. Downing ; Henry Francis Downing)

found: African American National Biography, accessed December 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Downing, Henry Francis; sailor, dramatist, fiction writer, U.S. consul; born c.1846 in New York, New York, United States; entered the U.S. Navy at age eighteen; worked as secretary to the Liberian secretary of state; reenlisted in the navy, serving on the Hartford in the Pacific (1872 -1875); appointed the consul to Luanda, Angola; prominent among black Democrats (1882); managing director of New Cotton Fields, Ltd; began his career as an author, publishing a handful of plays (1913-1914); black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux released Thirty Years Later, an adaptation of The Racial Tangle; died 1928 Harlem, New York, New York, United States, Harlem Hospital)