Sheppard Mullens
Sheppard Mullens, sometimes spelled Shepart Mullins or Shepherd Mullens, (1829 – August 7, 1871) was an African American public official and state legislator in Texas. He served one term in the Texas House of Representatives[1] and also served as a delegate to the state's 1868 Constitutional Convention.[2]
Early life
[edit]He was enslaved from birth in Lawrence County, Alabama in 1829. He labored as a blacksmith and was taken to Texas in 1854.[3]
He and fellow African American Texas state legislators Giles Cotton and Dave Medlock were from Limestone County when black Texans were emancipated.[4]
He married Sallie Downs December 29, 1866.[1] In 1869 Major General Joseph J. Reynolds, military commander of Texas, appointed Mullens to a four-year term as a McLennan county commissioner in 1869.[1] He was buried at the First Street Cemetery in Waco.[1]
Political career
[edit]He was a delegate at the 1867 Texas Constitutional Convention.[5][6]
He attended the "Morgan Hamilton" Republican Convention in Texas in 1869. He lived in Bosque at the time.[7]
He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1870-1871.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Barr, Alwyn (November 23, 2017). "Mullens, Shepherd". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Sheppard Mullens". Texas Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Winkler, Ernest William (August 30, 1916). "Platforms of Political Parties in Texas". The University – via Google Books.
- ↑ 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.