Jesse Jackson Millsaps

Jesse Jackson Millsaps was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a farmer, and a state legislator who served in the Arkansas [House of Representatives] representing Van Buren County, Arkansas in 1868 and 1885.
Millsaps was a member of the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention, where he was listed as a 41 year old farmer who had been in Arkansas for eight years.
He was also a member of the 1868 General Assembly where he was a representative for the 4th district.
In 1873 he was justice of the peace in Van Buren County.
He and other 1885 House representatives and officers were included in a composite photograph, where according to the captioning he was 57 and had been in Arkansas for 24 years, originally from North Carolina, was a Methodist, his post office was in Copeland, Arkansas, and he was a Republican.