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Sheppard Mullins
African-American legislator and delegate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sheppard Mullins was a state legislator in Texas. He was African American.
He was enslaved from birth in Lawrence County, Alabama in 1829. He labored as a blacksmith and was taken to Texas in 1854.[1]
He and fellow African American Texas state legislators Giles Cotton and Dave Medlock were from Limestone County when black Texans were emancipated.[2]
He was a delegate at the 1867 Texas Constitutional Convention.[3][4]
He attended the "Morgan Hamilton" Republican Convention in Texas in 1869. He lived in Bosque at the time.[5]
He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1870-1871.[6]
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