Orange Brunt was an American state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875 representing Panola County.[1] He had a wife named Thursday and children.[2]
In November 1873, the Memphis Daily Appeal lamented his election. Still, it reassured that he and Dan Matthews were not "vicious Negroes".[3] An October 25, 1875 news brief in The Clarion-Ledger described him as a Radical Republican and stated that he withdrew his candidacy (presumably for re-election) due to a "game" planned by Republican Party leaders and Urbain Ozanne, a sheriff in Panola County who tried to rein in Ku Klux Klan violence and murders.[4] [5] This ended up being the Mississippi Plan, a Southern Democrat strategy in 1875, whereby the involved parties would use threats and violence to eliminate African American voters and restore white supremacy.