Americus Mayo

{{Short description|Arkansas politician}}

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Americus Mayo (died 1891) was a state legislator in Arkansas. Scholars have had difficulty confirming details about his life.{{cite thesis|author=Branam, C. W.|title=The Africans Have Taken Arkansas": Political Activities of African-American Members of the Arkansas Legislature, 1868-73|url=https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/90/|location=University of Arkansas, Fayetteville|degree=MA|year=2011}} He voted against the impeachment of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice John McClure.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZopQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA24|title = Trial of Hon. John McClure: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, Before the Senate of the State of Arkansas, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives|last1 = Senate|first1 = Arkansas. Assembly|last2 = Pomeroy|first2 = James M.|year = 1872}} He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives. He was a Republican.{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/african-american-legislators-nineteenth-century-13932/|title=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}