Dracos Anthony Dimitry (September 17, 1858 - October 24, 1918) was a mixed race Louisiana Creole councilman, mayor, solicitor, and railroad station agent.

The Creole family was heavily pressured to pass as white because during the Jim Crow era laws became more severe including segregation and eventually the one-drop rule was adopted in Louisiana by 1910.

Both his parents had a successful women's school entitled the Orleans Female Academy (1842-1871) and his uncle Alexander Dimitry was the first superintendent of education in Louisiana.

On March 28, 1853, Pandely ran for the position of assistant alderman in New Orleans, a role similar to a city council member.

He won the election but he was removed from office when several members of the city of New Orleans presented evidence of his African heritage in a local Newspaper which eventually reached national headlines.

Pandely sued his accusers soon after and was able to pretend he was descended from a Native American chief's daughter of the Alibamu tribe named Malanta Talla to maintain his social status.

During the final year of Republican occupation in the South in 1877, Dracos was listed as a private in the Louisiana National Guard Company C of the First Crescent City Regiment which was formerly known as the White League.

In 1891, Dracos was listed as a councilman for Carencro, Louisiana a position from which his first cousin Pandely was ejected due to his race thirty-eight years prior in New Orleans leading to the Pandelly Affair.

[29] Although Carencro was founded by African, Acadian, and Creole people the toll of Southern politics heavily impacted the small town.

Regrettably during his tenure an African American Republican politician named Telismare Paddio was brutally beaten by a small mob because of a verbal altercation he had with a local judge.

[32] Telismare was also affiliated with New Orleans and was an agent in the custom house a position also occupied by Dracos' older brother Theodore.

[40][41][42][43][44][45][46] His wife Lizzie was educated and participated in countless charities and soup kitchens including volunteerism for the American Red Cross and Saint Peters Catholic Church of Carencro.

His daughter Celeste married a prominent local doctor and his son Dracos Alexander Dimitry was a lieutenant in the early American Airforce.