Sheppard Mullins

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 legislator 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]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900

References

1. Glasrud, Bruce A.; McDonald, Archie P. (August 30, 2008). Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal ; Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Archie P. McDonald ; Foreword by Cary D. Wintz ; with Contributions by Alwyn Barr ... [et Al.]. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN   978-1-60344-041-7 – via Google Books.
2. Awbrey, Betty Dooley; Dooley, Claude (October 25, 2005). Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers. Taylor Trade Publications. ISBN   978-1-58979-482-5 – via Google Books.
3. Shabazz, Amilcar (November 16, 2005). Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN   978-0-8078-7598-8 – via Google Books.
4. Lincove, David (January 30, 2000). Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   978-0-313-06501-9 – via Google Books.
5. Winkler, Ernest William (August 30, 1916). "Platforms of Political Parties in Texas". The University – via Google Books.
6. Taylor, Quintard (May 17, 1999). In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-393-24636-0 – via Google Books.